This is why bitcoiners don't understand privacy...until they suffer it! Take a selfie when the thief is pointing a gun at your head, demanding your wallet seed. PS: Hey Grant, leave your address and contact details so you can have more opportunities for selfies.

...TO BUY "ALL THE BITCOIN" Do you realize that Michael Saylor has no idea about the market? He's a cheap institutional lobbyist from Wall Street. In addition to being a Ponzi casino gambler with his company, trying to buy "all the BTC" would cause the price to rise exponentially (sellers would ask for much higher prices when they saw massive demand). There isn't enough liquidity in the market to sell everything at once without crashing the exchanges or sending the price skyrocketing to astronomical levels. Furthermore, many BTC are lost, held by long-term holders (such as Satoshi or whales) or institutions that would not sell.

No, most people don't know. And some believe they can avoid it. I'm somewhere in the middle: I know we're constantly being spied on, and I know we can only avoid some issues, not everything. It's very difficult to be completely anonymous and private. We mustn't be naive.

China is the mirror image of the West in 10 years. China is an authoritarian technocracy that uses a communist command structure to manage a market economy. Layer 1: The Surface What is visible is a country operating under the "Socialist" banner, but the daily reality is one of hyperactive capitalism, mass consumption, and sci-fi-esque cities. While the official rhetoric remains communist, the aesthetics and lifestyle are those of a global market power. Layer 2: The Depth It effectively functions as a technocracy. The CCP selects its leaders based on technical merit (engineers, scientists) and manages society through Big Data, AI, and rigid economic targets. Ideology has been largely replaced by technical efficiency and GDP growth as the primary metrics of success. Layer 3: The Hidden Structure The "Communist" framework is preserved because it is the only tool that guarantees a monopoly on power. The system uses technocratic methods to optimize the economy, but retains absolute political control to prevent any alternative power centers from emerging. It is a technocracy at the service of a single party to ensure stability and the regime's survival.

At this point, we could say that Bitcoin Archive is an institutional BTC lobbyist.

Even though the current Trump administration presents itself as “pro-crypto,” the signs of financial control are strong. On-chain KYC for BTC is on the way. For example, FinCEN requires exchanges to identify the owners of private wallets through proof of ownership, eliminating anonymity in withdrawals. Through real-time chain analysis, it labels UTXOs according to their history, destroying fungibility by rejecting satoshis from mixers (under the Patriot Act). This surveillance is reinforced by geographic orders that force exhaustive recording of cross-border flows, turning blockchain transparency into a tool for absolute fiscal control.

BITCOIN CO-OPTATION: ROADMAP BY PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE Bitcoin is being co-opted by banks, Wall Street, and governments. It seems obvious, but not to everyone. Some celebrate its adoption because they are maximalists...of fiat. Soon, there will be no doubt about Bitcoin's co-optation. I believe this is the roadmap (I can't give exact dates, of course), with the following probability of occurrence: -Institutional Concentration (High): The risk lies in the fact that most of the bitcoins issued will end up in the hands of institutions (ETFs and banks). As they are the majority holders, real control of the asset shifts from the individual to the institutional system. ETFs are already absorbing supply at a record pace; it is the easiest route for massive capital. -On-chain KYC (Medium-High): Regulatory pressure on mining pools and institutional nodes will force identification to avoid sanctions. They require miners to include only KYC BTC in the Transaction Data of blocks. -Total end of Fungibility (High): With KYC On-chain, it will be easier for the financial system to discriminate between “clean” and “risky” BTC, creating a dual market. -Bank Mining (Medium): Funds already control public mining companies; the move to direct mining by banks is a logical evolution for efficiency and control. -Scarcity Alteration (Low): This is the most difficult change due to consensus, but if network security falters after future halvings, banks will push tail emission to protect their investments. As halvings occur, the reward for miners decreases. The original theory states that, eventually, transaction fees will be sufficient to pay miners and keep the network secure, but since it will be hoarded rather than used as peer-to-peer money, there will not be enough transactions to compensate for halvings.

FROM LLULL TO MUSK: FROM RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM TO ALGORITHMIC MESSIANISM ᴬⁿᵃˡʸᶻᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜⁱᵖᵃᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ Ramon Llull, the 13th-century Majorcan philosopher, conceived the Ars Magna, a complex system of geometric figures and rotating discs designed to mechanize truth and convert infidels through combinatorial logic. Today, Elon Musk resurrects that same arrogance with Grok, his personal “truth machine” powered by massive GPU clusters. While the mystic sought to prove divinity using wooden circles, the tycoon uses AI to validate his own obsessions and troll the establishment. The result remains the same: a mechanical artifact promising definitive universal answers, yet merely reflecting its creator's biases under a thin veneer of supposed technical infallibility.

THE OLD ANALOG PREDECESSOR OF DIGITAL ID AS A MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL ᴬⁿᵃˡʸᶻᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜⁱᵖᵃᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ In ancient Rome, emperors distributed small tokens known as "tesserae frumentariae" (grain tokens) made of bone, ivory, or metal, to registered plebeians. These served as physical credentials for collecting subsidized or free grain rations through the annona system. To receive one, citizens had to register in official censuses, in which the state verified their status, which was usually limited to poor free men of specific categories. It was a comprehensive analog registration process. This mechanism prevented fraud and fostered loyalty: the emperor appeared as a generous provider, which helped maintain social stability in a city with a large urban poor population. Bread and circuses were tools of control, with benefits linked to identification. Now consider modern digital identity, which includes biometric applications, digital wallets, and verified IDs that provide access to subsidies, banking services, public services, and even voting. The tessera was usually marked or stamped to make it personal and non-transferable. Today's digital versions are based on biometrics for the same purpose, and in theory, even more secure. One key difference: the Roman token was optional if grain was not needed. In our digital world, opting out often means exclusion from essential services. Is this progress or deeper dependence? The state always controls who gets what, making privacy a constant challenge. Rome reminds us that identifying the population has never been neutral; it is a form of power. The tessera was the analog precursor to what is now being digitized.

Europe's masterstroke is worthy of an award: it exports its factories to China, allowing them to emit the CO2 that "frightens" us all, and in exchange, it buys the goods they produce there and adopts their methods of social control to ensure that no Europeans protest about the lack of industry. It's a perfect “circular economy”: Europeans provide the surveillance, and the Chinese provide the smoke. Truly brilliant.

TOKENIZATION IN THE 12TH CENTURY ᴬⁿᵃˡʸᶻᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜⁱᵖᵃᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ Do you think cryptocurrencies were born in this century with Bitcoin? Do you think the total tokenization proposed by Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, is innovative? Wrong. The Knights Templar already tokenized values in the 12th century, using cryptography in paper wallets instead of apps. Traveling to Jerusalem with gold in your pockets was suicide, assisted by bandits. The tension was vital: how to move immense wealth without physically moving the metal? The solution was radical: The deposit was made in Europe, an encrypted parchment was received, and then it was withdrawn at its destination in the Holy Land. The deposits consisted of gold, silver, jewels, and, very often, property titles (land and real estate). Many pilgrims mortgaged or entrusted the management of their lands to the Order in exchange for the credit necessary to travel, converting physical assets into cash available in Jerusalem. They used a geometric encryption protocol based on the Templar cross of the eight beatitudes and an analog symmetric encryption (basic single-key). If the parchment was stolen along the way, the thief had nothing because he could not decipher the unique key to the order. What was revolutionary was not only the security but the abstraction. They transformed value into information. They encrypted the value by separating it from the physical object 900 years ago. Does that sound familiar?

All in order to finance a corrupt system run by psychopaths who want to control the majority who believe that this is the only way to live in society.

I want to bring this memory from five years ago as a gift for all #monerists. State resources couldn't break Monero. May the evolution of #privacy in Monero continue in 2026. Monero's developers are the real heroes. CHEERS TO THEM!

A Bitcoiner celebrates when a president uses #Bitcoin for a purchase. A Monerist would wonder what we are doing wrong when a president uses #Monero for a purchase.

The GREAT MONETARY RESET is not a change of operating system; it is a layered installation. Many believe the digital dollar or CBDC is dead because of recent executive bans in the United States. This is a misunderstanding of the strategy. The transition is not coming as a government app but as a software update from Wall Street. We are entering the era of the undercover CBDC. Layer 1: The Surface. Official discourse celebrates the GENIUS Act of 2025. We are told this is a victory for financial liberty because the digital dollar will be private rather than state-issued. It appears to be a triumph of the free market over centralized control. Layer 2: The Depth. The entities issuing these free stablecoins are major banks and corporations like Circle or JPMorgan. The fine print reveals that to exist, they must back their tokens 100% with US Treasury Bonds. In reality, these stablecoins act as an infinite bailout fund for the US national debt. In this layer, the dollar does not die; it transmutes and becomes tokenized. It ceases to be paper in a wallet and becomes a programmable digital asset on a permissioned blockchain. The state no longer needs to issue the money if it can compel private entities to act as its collectors and watchmen. Layer 3: The Hidden Structure. Why ban an official CBDC? Because it is politically expensive. It is far more efficient to outsource control. If the government freezes an account, it is viewed as tyranny. If a private bank does it for a violation of the terms of service, it is viewed as corporate policy. Censorship is being privatized. The systemic logic is masterful. The US exports the digital dollar globally through private companies, allowing the e-dollar to penetrate regions that would never accept an app from the Federal Reserve. This is monetary colonialism disguised as Fintech innovation. The Next Phase: The Noose. Digitalizing money is useless without total traceability. This is where Digital Identity (ID) enters the frame. Under the CLARITY Act, no legal stablecoin exists without a wallet linked to a verified identity. Your money now has a name, a last name, and biometrics attached. And this is where the technological oligarchy comes into play with its role in the technocracy they are installing. Think of it this way: the tokenized dollar is the car, but Digital ID is the fuel. Without a verified identity, your tokens do not move. There is no need to ban cash if the system ensures 99% of the economy only accepts money with an identity attached. This creates a perfect panopticon. The private issuer knows who you are. The state maintains access to that data under the guise of national security. AI analyzes spending patterns to detect risky behavior. It is a social credit system wrapped in Silicon Valley aesthetics. The Great Reset is not a change of operating system; it is a layered installation. The Sovereign Individual must realize the battle is no longer Dollar vs. Crypto, but Privacy vs. Permission. Is your money a right or a favor granted by the issuer? The cage is digital, and the bars are made of code.

Four questions to understand: 1. What did bankers and governments think about Bitcoin 5 years ago? 2. What did bankers and governments think about Monero 5 years ago? 3. What do they think today? 4. What changed?

BLOCKCHAINS VS. CHAINS OF CONTROL CBDC: The Final Battle for the Ownership of Your Freedom The European Union has handed down its sentence: 2027 will be the year of the "Great Blackout" for financial privacy. Assets that protect your anonymity, with #Monero leading the way, are being counted out of exchanges. But this isn't a technical measure; it’s an assault on sovereignty. LAYER 1: THE SURFACE (The facade of security) The official narrative is the AMLR regulation. They sell us the idea that banning these assets is the only way to stop crime. It’s the same old trick: asking you to surrender your rights in exchange for a "peace" designed by bureaucrats in Brussels. In this first layer, the State labels privacy as inherently suspicious. It doesn’t matter if you use Monero to protect your personal safety or your principles; for the system, if you aren’t transparent (to them), you are a threat. LAYER 2: THE DEPTH (The CBDC context) If we look at the calendar, the mask falls off. 2027 is the red carpet for the Digital Euro. The ban isn't seeking security; it’s seeking to clear out the competition. They can't sell a total-control currency if the citizen has an escape route toward total financial freedom. In the depths, we understand that the attack isn't against the Monero protocol (mathematics doesn’t obey decrees), but against the bridges. They are trying to build a digital wall between your bank account and your freedom so that, out of sheer convenience, you accept the cage. LAYER 3: THE HIDDEN STRUCTURE (The logic of total control) Here we hit the bone: the system's incentive is transactional omniscience. In a world with privacy, the State is a spectator. In the world they are planning for 2027, the State is the administrator of your permissions to transact. The hidden structure reveals that anonymity is the last bastion of dissent. If they know what you spend on, they know who you are. Banning financial privacy is the step before a system where your money can be "turned off" if your behavior doesn't fit the official narrative. The logic of the system is binary: either the money belongs to the individual or the money belongs to the State. By expelling Monero from the "legal" circuit, they admit that individual sovereignty is incompatible with their future governance model. What they don't understand is the boomerang effect. By stripping privacy of its "speculative" layer on exchanges, they are forcing it to fulfill its true purpose: to be the infrastructure of a parallel, invisible, and sovereign economy. In 2027, the wall finishes closing. The layer analysis shows us that the surface is a lie and the bottom is control. Privacy is not a luxury; it is the oxygen of liberty. Are you going to build your exit, or are you going to wait for them to close the door? ᴸᵉᵗ ᵀʰᵉʳᵉ ᴮᵉ ᴰᵃʳᵏ🏴a³ Lunarpunk🌙 That's why #Monero #agorist #monerist #SovereignIndividual

#TechnocracySeries –Episode 7 ᴬⁿᵃˡʸᶻᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜⁱᵖᵃᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ THE ENERGY SURVEY AND THE DATA PANOPTICON In 1932, the technocratic movement proposed conducting a “Continental Energy Inventory.” It wasn't just about counting barrels of oil; the idea was to record every physical interaction and consumption of every inhabitant of North America. The goal: to create a massive database (in an era without computers) to determine exactly how much energy each person and object consumed. The consequence: for the system to work, the state needed to know who consumed what, when, and where. This implied total administrative surveillance of private life to “balance the load” of the national energy grid. The modern connection: this old inventory is the ideological predecessor of the “Smart Grid” and the Internet of Things (IoT). What used to be done with spreadsheets and energy certificates is now done with algorithms and real-time sensors. In short, the personal carbon footprint is the modern, digitized version of the Energy Certificates that Howard Scott and the technocrats of the 1930s dreamed of. In summary, technocracy has always been based on the idea that if something cannot be measured, it cannot be controlled, and if it can be measured, human beings become just another variable in the equation.

Trust? Wallet Over $6 million was stolen from hundreds of Trust Wallet users (Binance's wallet) through automated wallet drains, with the initial theft addresses listed on the EVM, Bitcoin, and Solana chains. The incident coincides with a December 24, 2025, update to the Trust Wallet browser extension, raising suspicions of a supply chain compromise triggering drains when importing seed phrases. As of December 25, 2025, Trust Wallet has not issued an official statement. Users should immediately revoke authorizations, transfer funds to secure alternatives, and avoid the extension while the investigation is ongoing.

The Sovereign Individual must consider a highly probable scenario: Internet access with mandatory Digital Identity. In that context, tools such as VPNs or even Tor lose operational effectiveness, not due to technical failure, but due to structural exclusion: the entry gate is guarded. A geopolitical fragmentation of the network is likely. Some countries and jurisdictions will not adopt mandatory identification or KYC schemes, while others will impose them as access conditions. This asymmetry will not generate freedom, but segmentation and an opportunity. I have published a new chapter of my book. https://liberlion.medium.com/understanding-the-information-age-the-sovereign-individual-chapter-5-4601bf9be215