The most expensive giveaway in history… In 2010, Gavin Andresen created a website called The Bitcoin Faucet, which literally gave away free Bitcoins. Let's talk about how this act bootstrapped Bitcoin adoption👇 Here was how people got Bitcoins from the Faucet: 1. Solve a captcha 2. Enter your Bitcoin address 3. Get 5 BTC for FREE Over 43,750 BTC were given away 🐳 ⟶ In 2010: Nobody cared ⟶ In 2025: $4+ BILLION worth "What's the catch?" Gavin's answer: "No catch, I want Bitcoin to be successful, so I created this little service to give you a few coins to start with." Read that again! ❌ No profit motive. ❌ No token sale. ❌ No presale. ❌ No VC funding. ✅ Just pure belief in the technology Gavin Andresen decided to give Bitcoin away for free to bootstrap adoption, and the faucet ran until 2011. Thousands of people got free Bitcoin: ⟶ Many threw away their private keys ⟶ Many forgot about it ⟶ Some held Gavin didn't get rich from the faucet; he got Bitcoin adopted. If you're reading this and thinking, “I wish I were around in 2010”… 🤔 Bitcoin is still early. And just like you’re looking back at 2010… Someone in 2035 will be looking back at 2025 the same way.

To find the rational center first grasp the extremes: ⬅️ On one side is total government control over production and distribution. On the other side is the rugged, self-reliant sovereign individual. ➡️ America is about finding the sweet spot somewhere in between.

I just set up my new hardware wallet.

You do realize this whole Artemis II project is being faked, right?

When the system gets brittle you need something resilient. Bitcoin: Local community, local currency.

America is an idea pursued from multiple perspectives. We don’t have to get along — we only have to agree to not get along civilly. That’s what makes us an incoherent whole.

The National Debt “The Republicans will fix it this time” “The Democrats will fix it this time” ~ (Study bitcoin.)

Perhaps the system is not fit for the times we are living in and the chaos is a symptom, not a cause. Imagine a world where hard work is rewarded, truth and justice prevail in courtrooms, the government doesn’t steal your labor by debasing the currency, bureaucrats aren’t captured by corporations, and we fund critical infrastructure instead of wars overseas.

Photographs separated by only 66 years.

The U.S. Treasury just announced something that hasn't happened since Abraham Lincoln was in office. Starting in June, Donald Trump's signature will appear on all new U.S. paper currency, beginning with $100 bills, with other denominations to follow. His name replaces the Treasurer of the United States, a position that's had its signature on every bill since 1861. That's 165 years of unbroken tradition.

Imagine trying to predict today’s world from yesterday. Now imagine trying to predict tomorrow’s world from today.

25 years ago you could put $500 in your pocket, drive anywhere in America, rent an apartment with no background check, and start over. $500 today is a month of groceries if you're lucky. The mainstream media wants you to think inflation is like the weather. Some atmospheric phenomenon that just happens. In reality, it's authorized, institutionalized, bipartisan theft. And the people closest to the printer don't feel it. Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching America turn into a giant carnival. Everything is temporary and transactional, without roots or community. Millennials were lucky, in an odd way, to come of age during the financial crisis. They watched Ron Paul in real time and grasped the Austrian economic framework as the bailouts played out. The wealth transfer unfolded with some families devastated while others thrived. Gen Z didn't get that education as they came of age in the aftermath. However, they certainly feel it. The sense of dispossession is completely justified. But feeling the problem and understanding the problem are two different things. The solution is there for them to find when they are ready, as Bitcoin exists and is battle-tested. The intellectual framework for understanding exactly what was done to them and exactly how to protect themselves is freely available. But it requires the hard work of sitting down and actually learning something difficult when you're already exhausted from a rigged economy. It asks people to better themselves at the exact moment they have the least energy to do it. A person with savings has options and leverage. The people running this system don't want you to have either. Sound money gives you both, and that's why they fight it so hard. Study bitcoin.

If governments can ‘print’ their own currencies, they can pay arms manufacturers, foot soldiers, and contractors endlessly to wage endless wars. If the world operated with sound money, endless wars wouldn’t be financeable. Study Bitcoin.

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Everyone talks about innovation in California like it’s only a Silicon Valley or Hollywood thing. Meanwhile up here in Mendocino (California’s last slither of frontier) I keep meeting people who are bubbling with ideas. Up here the rules are few and the vistas wide. Creativity feels freer. Are you an innovator?

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Surveillance does not need to arrest everyone. It only needs to make everyone feel arrestable. Privacy is the right to develop a self without permission, to think without a handler, to associate without being cataloged. That is why power attacks privacy first. When privacy dies, liberty follows.

The national debt just hit $39T. More dollars in circulation = each one buys less. That’s inflation. That’s why prices are rising. (That and foreign entanglements.)