Since the almighty greenback is the Global Reserve Currency (GRC), it is widely for a variety of purposes, including: Settlement of Trade Invoices, bills, etc are settled in dollars Foreign exchange reserves for central banks (think BoJ using USTs to prop up the dying Yen) Lending for International Debt and Loans IMF, World Bank, and others lend to sovereigns in dollars Foreign currency exchange (Forex) Most currency pairs are quoted against the dollar (e.g., EUR/USD, USD/JPY), making it central to global FX markets. Outright Dollarization Some countries use the U.S. dollar as their official currency (e.g., Ecuador, El Salvador) or alongside their local currency. Remittances & Cross-Border Transfers Dollars are widely used for sending money across borders, particularly in developing countries. Safe-Haven Asset Feature During crises, investors buy dollars for safety, causing global capital flows into U.S. assets like Treasuries. Eurodollar Market (perhaps most important of all!) U.S. dollars dominate SWIFT transactions, international bank reserves, and offshore banking systems- the offshore system is called the Eurodollar market. USDs are lent into existence by foreign banks and used to finance global commerce. (Banks in Pakistan lending eurodollars to oil refiners in Iran for trade, for example)

🪙Gold is Being Revalued Quietly – The price of gold is rising without triggering panic, suggesting strategic positioning before a formal acknowledgment of gold’s role in the financial system.

It is not bad that your cost of living should decline rather than increase over time. Unfortunately, it takes from the banker 🏦and gives to the individual 🧑‍🔧. Therein lies the problem. Deflation in this sense is good, as it allows prices to fall ⬇️ for those who make sound financial decisions, save, and hold money; sound money. While taking from those who choose to lever up or hold a debt-laden money. Money that pre-spends its future by pulling it forward into today ⌚

I took risks and I paid for them. It fueled me to keep going and to really open the hood of this bitcoin thing. The rest is history and will be my legacy.

Why is Bitcoin’s value rising? Because as the M2 fiat money supply increases, each unit of currency (like the USD) loses value. When you compare that to Bitcoin—an asset with a fixed, finite supply—its value naturally rises in terms of debased fiat. Starting to get it yet ?

A million conspiracy theories about who really runs the world. Turns out it's just the bond market.

For years, faking it worked. In politics. In business. Say what people want to hear—get elected, get the job, move up. But the internet broke the illusion. Now we see principled people regularly—and we’ve developed a taste for it. You can’t just mimic anymore. You actually need to believe in something. That’s why politics feels broken. Most politicians brought up over the last 50 years were rewarded for being chameleons. Same with execs at large orgs. Now they have to relearn the meta. The market demands authenticity. It’s time to believe.

I see money and currency working alongside each other. Bitcoin will actually allow the dollar to last longer than we expect. And that's because if the US govt is going to build a Bitcoin position, those positions will increase in value faster than the interest on the existing debt, so by owning bitcoin you can prolong the Fiat system. Bitcoin is not a risk-on tech stock. When they add Bitcoin to the balance sheet it actually strengthens the credit worthiness of the country. So the idea of a Bitcoin money and a fiat currency is not that farfetched of an idea because Bitcoin is really just replacing real estate as a base layer pristine collateral.

The best Layer 2's will help increase velocity on the bitcoin network without compromising block size. And once we get it, Then bitcoin will be accepted as a medium of exchange. Then bitcoin will be adopted as a unit of account. And then bitcoin will go to global GDP divided by 21million. We will move away from the COMMODITY VALUE of bitcoin which is based on the commodity cycle relative to cost of production, and we will move up that S-curve to MONETARY VALUE which is the entire value of the economy divided by the amount of circulating coins.

Bitcoin isn't replacing the dollar, it's replacing the foundation it stood on.

Treasury collateral is the foundation and backing of our financial system. It is the Layer 0. All financial products like credit cards, bank deposits, car loans, and mortgages are backed by it. But it is being devalue and it's deteriorating. Inflation was caused by increasing the money supply by 40% in just 2 years. Now they think they need to raise rates to fight inflation but as they raise interest rates, they're devaluing Treasury collateral. As yields go up principal value goes down. Literally the entire backing of the financial system is being devauled with no forward guidance. We are just left to fend for ourselves. Bitcoin takes up that fight for us.

GM ☀️

Happy Easter to all of Nostr world. Touch some grass today and look up at the sun.

You think Bitcoin uses “too much energy”? Your Netflix binge uses more energy in a month than a small African village. And for what? To rewatch Love Is Blind while Jerome Powell reverse-engineers the Roman Empire’s collapse using a Dell from 2007. Bitcoin is economic gravity. It costs what it must. Bitcoin is the first money system that doesn’t depend on lies, narratives, or Davos seminars. It depends on physics. This isn’t a “belief system.” It’s a physics-based reality engine. Every believer becomes part of the network. Every doubter funds the next block

Before and after. Which one looks better to you? Credit @Ross Ulbricht

We're using bits to reopen innovation in atoms, because innovation in atoms has been blocked by regulations, which are created by the US establishment and exported all over the world through harmonization. The network state uses digital technology to gain sufficient consent in the cloud to build a community, crowdfund territory, and eventually gain recognition as a sovereign polity. Once we do so, we can return innovation to the physical world.

The Internet is to the USA as the Americas were to the UK.

So: In a "network state", the network is the lives of the people (national network), the land (metaverse subnet), the law (governance network), and the Leviathan (Bitcoin network) all packed into one. It's the people, the digital territory they occupy, the rules that bind them, and the power that enforces those laws.