The cost of everything is falling, this is the reality AI makes undeniable. The question is whether we'll ensure that benefit reaches everyone through genuine purchasing power, or allow it to be captured by those controlling the monetary system while humans are managed by surveillance AI justified by the system's fragility.

The old fiat system can't fix itself from within. The debt burden is too large, the political incentives too entrenched, the dependence on inflation too complete, and now the surveillance infrastructure too valuable to those in power. We need a structural exit, a parallel system that can accommodate technological abundance without requiring algorithmic control of human behaviour.

Bitcoin provides the monetary foundation; AI provides the productive engine. Together they create the possibility of an economy where technology's natural deflationary tendency enhances human flourishing rather than threatening systemic collapse or triggering authoritarian surveillance.

If AI becomes powerful enough to model and predict human behaviour at scale, then the scarcest asset is no longer compute or capital but it is unobservable agency. Bitcoin preserves this by allowing economic action outside the feedback loops that train surveillance models.

Bitcoin's design choices are political in the deepest sense; because no identity layer is required for participation, no permissioned access gates, no centralized ledger operator to coerce, no behavioural profiling embedded in the protocol, no ability to freeze, reverse, or selectively censor transactions at the base layer

The fatal flaw though is that AI has finite deflationary effects, and it can only reduce costs so far before hitting physical limits of energy and materials. Fiat currency, by contrast, has no upper limit on its ability to offset deflation through expansion. This sounds like fiat's advantage, but it actually is its death warrant. The ability to print without limit means the temptation to print without limit. As AI pushes deflationary pressure to unprecedented levels, fiat systems will print to unprecedented levels, ultimately destroying the currency's value and credibility entirely.

If previous technologies were deflationary, AI promises to be deflationary on an unprecedented scale, what some observers call "the most powerful deflationary force in history." Unlike past innovations that automated specific tasks or industries, AI has the potential to automate cognitive labour across virtually every sector simultaneously and usher in an unprecedented deflationary tsunami.

At the end of the day, users don’t want to be managed by European political elites. They don’t want to upload government IDs and photos to post their thoughts. They don’t want platforms that define “Values” for them. They don’t want social networks announced at the World Economic Forum.

They want tools that empower them and W is a tool to control them.

Let’s call this what it is, W is a EU propaganda platform disguised as a social network. The framing around “fighting disinformation” and “misinformation” is perhaps the most asinine aspect of W’s design philosophy. W’s intended purpose is not about protecting users from bots or fake accounts. It’s about creating a platform where “the right kind” of political speech is amplified and “the wrong kind” is suppressed.

Who determines what constitutes disinformation? The platform that requires you to verify your identity with a government ID and photo, that’s who. This creates a perfect storm for political censorship. Edward Snowden warned in his book, Permanent Record, that surveillance doesn’t need to be total to be effective, it only needs to be possible. W bakes this chilling effect directly into the foundation of the platform.

The requirement that users submit ID and photo verification before speaking reveals the platform’s true orientation, which is that W is not built on the assumption that users are sovereign individuals. It is built on the assumption that users are potential risks whose speech must be pre-legitimized. As Julian Assange argued in Cypherpunks, systems that require identity to speak inevitably centralize power over speech. They do not eliminate abuse; they merely ensure that abuse becomes selectively enforceable.

Reformism is haunted by a ghost that refuses to die: the fantasy of the benevolent ruler. Whether packaged as the philosopher-king, the technocratic expert, the populist outsider, or simply the “lesser evil,” the story never changes. This time will be different. This candidate truly cares. This administration will finally deliver.

It never is. They never do. It never will.

Our political system is a lie. Democracy, as practiced, is a lie. Our justice system is a lie. Our money is a lie. For some of us, our relationships are lies. Corporate media manufactures and peddles lies. Our schools teach children lies. Our healthcare system is driven by lies. The climate change narrative is a lie. Our financial system is one colossal lie. The stock market is a lie. Our consensus-driven science is a lie. Most of our wars have been started with lies. Our recorded history is selective at best. I could go on but I’m sure you get the picture now.

Occasionally violent revolutions interrupt this cycle and turn things in a different direction for a season, but eventually the same pattern takes root and becomes normalized again. It’s easy to understand why the establishment loves this cycle. The question is: why do freedom-loving people with functioning brains accept this status quo? Why do they find themselves in voting booths being forced to choose the “lesser of two evils”, which is still choosing evil? Why do they keep placing their trust in people and institutions that have revealed themselves to be untrustworthy time and time again?

Decentralization isn't just a technical architecture but it's the recognition that concentrating authority in credentialed gatekeepers creates incentives for corruption and failure. It's the understanding that distributed verification is more robust than hierarchical trust. It's the claim that individuals equipped with the right tools and mindset can evaluate complex questions without deferring to experts who have demonstrated neither wisdom nor accountability, and who are, more often than not, simply mercenaries selling their credentials to the highest bidder.

Decentralization isn't just a technical architecture but it's the recognition that concentrating authority in credentialed gatekeepers creates incentives for corruption and failure. It's the understanding that distributed verification is more robust than hierarchical trust. It's the claim that individuals equipped with the right tools and mindset can evaluate complex questions without deferring to experts who have demonstrated neither wisdom nor accountability, and who are, more often than not, simply mercenaries selling their credentials to the highest bidder.

Decentralization isn't just a technical architecture but it's the recognition that concentrating authority in credentialed gatekeepers creates incentives for corruption and failure. It's the understanding that distributed verification is more robust than hierarchical trust. It's the claim that individuals equipped with the right tools and mindset can evaluate complex questions without deferring to experts who have demonstrated neither wisdom nor accountability, and who are, more often than not, simply mercenaries selling their credentials to the highest bidder.

At the root of this crisis is the replacement of meritocracy with political obedience. This arrangement persists not merely because of corrupt institutions, but because of a profound weakness in the public itself. A dumbed-down populace has been trained to outsource thinking entirely, to weigh arguments not by their internal coherence or empirical strength, but by the résumé of the person delivering them. Credentials have replaced reasoning. Titles have replaced truth. 

At the root of this crisis is the replacement of meritocracy with political obedience. This arrangement persists not merely because of corrupt institutions, but because of a profound weakness in the public itself. A dumbed-down populace has been trained to outsource thinking entirely, to weigh arguments not by their internal coherence or empirical strength, but by the résumé of the person delivering them. Credentials have replaced reasoning. Titles have replaced truth. 

Tucker's gold won't save him from the entropy of fiat. Bitcoin already has. Whether he knows it or not, the monetary revolution he fears is the one that will free him.

Tucker's gold won't save him from the entropy of fiat. Bitcoin already has. Whether he knows it or not, the monetary revolution he fears is the one that will free him. The question isn't who made Bitcoin, it's who can stop it. And the answer, CIA or not, is no one.

If Carlson understood Bitcoin as money rather than as an investment, his concerns about CIA origins would evaporate. The origin of the dollar matters because dollars are controlled by their issuer, the Federal Reserve can print more at will. The origin of Bitcoin is irrelevant because Bitcoin cannot be controlled by its creator or anyone else. The protocol is the money, and the protocol is fixed.

The irony is that Carlson fears a future where Bitcoin becomes controllable while simultaneously advocating for gold, an asset whose monetary use was systematically captured and controlled by governments throughout the 20th century. Executive Order 6102, the abandonment of Bretton Woods, the suppression of gold's price through paper market manipulation, these aren't hypothetical future risks. They're historical facts. Gold's physical limitations made it capturable. Bitcoin's digital nature, paradoxically, makes it far more resistant to control.

Should we abandon the internet because DARPA created it? Should we reject GPS because it came from military operations? Should privacy activists stop using Tor because the Navy built it?

Should we abandon the internet because DARPA created it? Should we reject GPS because it came from military operations? Should privacy activists stop using Tor because the Navy built it?Of course not. These technologies transcended their origins because of what they are, not who made them. While skepticism is reasonable given such origins, understanding how they fundamentally work ensures we don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

You don't need a digital ID to hold bitcoin. You don't need government permission to receive it. You don't need a social credit score to spend it. Transactions settle on a decentralized network no single entity controls. The network doesn't care about your politics, medical history, social connections, or compliance with state directives. It cares only about valid cryptographic proofs.

You don't need a digital ID to hold bitcoin. You don't need government permission to receive it. You don't need a social credit score to spend it. Transactions settle on a decentralized network no single entity controls. The network doesn't care about your politics, medical history, social connections, or compliance with state directives. It cares only about valid cryptographic proofs. This is bigger than "number go up." This is about maintaining economic agency in a world increasingly hostile to individual freedom.

The more effective pressure point isn't parliament or protests. It's the cash register. Businesses are going to be the ultimate enforcers for digital ID systems. Without their cooperation, the entire infrastructure collapses.

Businesses are going to be the ultimate enforcers for digital ID systems. Without their cooperation, the entire infrastructure collapses. Every business that cooperates with digital ID implementation must face immediate, severe economic consequences. No warnings. No second chances. This means targeted, ruthless economic warfare. You vote with your feet and your wallet, and you do it without hesitation. This is how you strangle the infrastructure before it becomes operational.

Your employment history, political affiliations, social media activity, location data, purchasing patterns, medical conditions, all mapped to a single biometric signature you cannot escape because it is biologically you. Every door scans your face. Every transaction requires your fingerprint. Every interaction with authority demands biometric verification. You become perpetually visible, perpetually trackable, perpetually accountable.

Every door scans your face. Every transaction requires your fingerprint. Every interaction with authority demands biometric verification. You become perpetually visible, perpetually trackable, perpetually accountable.When the system is breached, not if, when; the consequences are irreversible. You can change a password. You can cancel a credit card. You cannot change your face or fingerprints. The compromise is permanent. Your biological identity becomes a liability you carry for life.

Your employment history, political affiliations, social media activity, location data, purchasing patterns, medical conditions, all mapped to a single biometric signature you cannot escape because it is biologically you. Every door scans your face. Every transaction requires your fingerprint. Every interaction with authority demands biometric verification. You become perpetually visible, perpetually trackable, perpetually accountable.

Every door scans your face. Every transaction requires your fingerprint. Every interaction with authority demands biometric verification. You become perpetually visible, perpetually trackable, perpetually accountable.When the system is breached, not if, when; the consequences are irreversible. You can change a password. You can cancel a credit card. You cannot change your face or fingerprints. The compromise is permanent. Your biological identity becomes a liability you carry for life.