A Spirit That Won’t Die
Returning to who you are.
Returning to who you are.
Stop waiting. Start living. Or jump.
A farewell to awe and idle time.
You're not healing. You're avoiding.
Wake the Hell Up Before the Crash
ECB advisor Jürgen Schaaf's anxious response to the dominance of US dollar stablecoins inadvertently exposes central banking's fundamental flaw: treating money as state property rather than a market phenomenon. As stablecoins prove to be mere digital extensions of failing fiat systems, Bitcoin emerges as the only truly neutral money serving human flourishing over state power.
The digital gulag is being built with your consent. While you debate politics and scroll social media, central banks worldwide are racing to deploy Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), programmable money that can be turned off, expired, restricted, or confiscated with a keystroke. The question isn't whether this digital leash is coming, it's whether you'll choose to wear it willingly, or join the growing resistance building an alternative economy around Bitcoin before the window for choice closes forever
Framed as a step toward modernization and dollar stability, the GENIUS Act is anything but a victory for financial freedom. The Act quietly transforms private stablecoin issuers into instruments of state surveillance, tethered to the Fed and backed by inflating dollars. Under the guise of innovation, it creates the legal and technical infrastructure for a de facto Central Bank Digital Currency, without ever naming it. This essay exposes how stablecoins,under the GENIUS Act, are now the Trojan Horse for a programmable, censorable, and fully controlled financial system.
"Rejection as a Creative Force" is a short essay on how a total destruction of one's ego and self-image can, and should, act as a precursor to a rebirth of sorts, a catalyst for striving towards the ideal. Written in January 2023. Now available online as both text and audio. About a year after writing this, I wrote something in my journal that could very well serve as a summary of the essay: SHIT IS SUPPOSED TO BREAK YOU DOWN SO YOU COULD BUILD YOURSELF UP. THAT’S THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE.
Bitcoin treasury companies, the latest bull market trend where public firms accumulate Bitcoin on their balance sheets are being hailed as revolutionary adoption, but they're actually perverting Bitcoin's original vision by treating it as a mere financial instrument rather than building a true Bitcoin economy.
Illness Is Deception
Category Error
Why we still need to read the code.
The Widening Gyre
Reimagining the First Amendment in the Digital Age
I always wondered why a pot of water boils on the stove.
An AI generated response that looks into the security risks public companies face when publishing Bitcoin addresses as proof of reserves—particularly those that issue securities tied to Bitcoin holdings—and evaluate whether those risks outweigh the transparency benefits for investors.
The Chanos Trade
Amazon or Icarus?