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Iran just showed the world why Bitcoin is the hardest money.
A student wakes up in Tehran and the phone is dead. Not “slow.” Dead. Iran is in a near-total internet blackout connectivity reported around 4% of normal. (The Washington Post)
The next problem isn’t politics. It’s money.
If the internet is off, payments don’t clear. If protests spread, accounts get watched. If the state feels threatened, banks become a control surface. And if the currency is melting, your savings bleed while you’re trying to stay safe. In late January the rial hit a record low around 1,500,000 per dollar. (Al Jazeera)
This is the war lesson: in conflict, money stops being neutral. The rails become permissioned. Access becomes conditional.
Bitcoin wins here for one simple reason: it’s bearer money.
Not “a bank account.” Not “a promise.” An asset you can hold yourself, move without asking, and take across borders in your head. It doesn’t fix war. But it does remove a key weapon: the ability to trap people inside a broken currency and a controlled banking system.
The best money is the money that still works when institutions don’t.
21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No hotline.
This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy. Price doesn’t reflect it yet.
It will.
A student wakes up in Tehran and the phone is dead. Not “slow.” Dead. Iran is in a near-total internet blackout connectivity reported around 4% of normal. (The Washington Post)
The next problem isn’t politics. It’s money.
If the internet is off, payments don’t clear. If protests spread, accounts get watched. If the state feels threatened, banks become a control surface. And if the currency is melting, your savings bleed while you’re trying to stay safe. In late January the rial hit a record low around 1,500,000 per dollar. (Al Jazeera)
This is the war lesson: in conflict, money stops being neutral. The rails become permissioned. Access becomes conditional.
Bitcoin wins here for one simple reason: it’s bearer money.
Not “a bank account.” Not “a promise.” An asset you can hold yourself, move without asking, and take across borders in your head. It doesn’t fix war. But it does remove a key weapon: the ability to trap people inside a broken currency and a controlled banking system.
The best money is the money that still works when institutions don’t.
21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No hotline.
This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy. Price doesn’t reflect it yet.
It will.
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Most people don’t know this, but Bitcoin has a hidden message that can never be deleted
Bitcoin block 666,666 was mined on January 18, 2021
It contains a message permanently written into the blockchain
Using Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN, the miner embedded a Bible verse directly into the block’s data
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21
To make it happen, they paid over 5x the normal fee just to guarantee inclusion in that exact block
The transaction is linked to wallets named “GoD” and “BibLE”, verifiable on any public block explorer
Once it’s there, it can never be removed
Bitcoin block 666,666 was mined on January 18, 2021
It contains a message permanently written into the blockchain
Using Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN, the miner embedded a Bible verse directly into the block’s data
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21
To make it happen, they paid over 5x the normal fee just to guarantee inclusion in that exact block
The transaction is linked to wallets named “GoD” and “BibLE”, verifiable on any public block explorer
Once it’s there, it can never be removed
"Bitcoin down to $2.70 a pop. So glad i didn't buy in on that mess."
This is why we buy the dip and HODL! ✊
This is why we buy the dip and HODL! ✊
Back in the early days of Bitcoin, around 2010, you could actually get 5 BTC for free just by solving a simple captcha on a website.😂🥂
It sounds crazy now, but at that time Bitcoin had almost no value, and very few people knew about it. So developers were giving it away to spread awareness and get more people involved.
There was no signup, no payment just solve the captcha and you’d receive Bitcoin.
Today, 5 BTC is worth a huge amount of money. But back then, it was almost nothing, so most people didn’t take it seriously or ended up losing it.
It shows one simple thing: the biggest opportunities usually come when nobody is paying attention.
It sounds crazy now, but at that time Bitcoin had almost no value, and very few people knew about it. So developers were giving it away to spread awareness and get more people involved.
There was no signup, no payment just solve the captcha and you’d receive Bitcoin.
Today, 5 BTC is worth a huge amount of money. But back then, it was almost nothing, so most people didn’t take it seriously or ended up losing it.
It shows one simple thing: the biggest opportunities usually come when nobody is paying attention.
Throwback to 2012 when #Coinbase gave you 0.1 $BTC (worth $1.20 then, $7400 now) just for referring people.
This guy bought 259,684 Bitcoin for $2,613 and the exchange reversed his trade the next day
On June 19, 2011 a hacker broke into Mt. Gox and dumped a massive amount of stolen BTC
Bitcoin crashed from $17 to $0.01 in 20 minutes
While everyone panicked Kevin placed a buy order at a penny each
His $2,613 bought 259,684 BTC and took out 643 BTC before the exchange locked withdrawals
Mt. Gox rolled back every trade from the crash and wiped his account
He posted on BitcoinTalk: "I'm Kevin, here's my side"
Half the forum called him a hero
The other half called him the hacker
He was neither
Just a smart guy who clicked buy during a crash and got everything taken from him
Mt. Gox went bankrupt 3 years later anyway
Those 259,684 BTC at today's price: over $18 billion
On June 19, 2011 a hacker broke into Mt. Gox and dumped a massive amount of stolen BTC
Bitcoin crashed from $17 to $0.01 in 20 minutes
While everyone panicked Kevin placed a buy order at a penny each
His $2,613 bought 259,684 BTC and took out 643 BTC before the exchange locked withdrawals
Mt. Gox rolled back every trade from the crash and wiped his account
He posted on BitcoinTalk: "I'm Kevin, here's my side"
Half the forum called him a hero
The other half called him the hacker
He was neither
Just a smart guy who clicked buy during a crash and got everything taken from him
Mt. Gox went bankrupt 3 years later anyway
Those 259,684 BTC at today's price: over $18 billion
dollar in 1800 and a dollar in 1913 had the same purchasing power.
Today it's worth three cents.
The gold standard kept money sound for 113 years.
The Fed destroyed 97% of it.
Enter Bitcoin.
Fixed supply.
No central bank.
Sound money for the digital age.
Today it's worth three cents.
The gold standard kept money sound for 113 years.
The Fed destroyed 97% of it.
Enter Bitcoin.
Fixed supply.
No central bank.
Sound money for the digital age.
April 23, 2011, Satoshi's last known email:
"I've moved on to other things. It's in good hands with Gavin and everyone."
Think about what he didn't say:
❌ "I'll be back to guide you"
❌ "Don't make changes without me"
❌ "Here's my plan for the next decade"
❌ "I retain veto power"
❌ "I'm staying on as advisor"
He just... trusted the code, trusted the community, and left.
Compare to every other project:
Ethereum: Vitalik still here, still influencing
Cardano: Charles still here, still selling
Solana: Anatoly still here, still pitching
Every shitcoin: Founders still dumping
Bitcoin: The creator has been gone since 2011, and the protocol still works perfectly.
That's not a bug, that's the ultimate feature.
Satoshi proved Bitcoin doesn't need Satoshi.
- He didn't build a company
- He built a protocol
Protocols don't need CEOs.
"I've moved on to other things. It's in good hands with Gavin and everyone."
Think about what he didn't say:
❌ "I'll be back to guide you"
❌ "Don't make changes without me"
❌ "Here's my plan for the next decade"
❌ "I retain veto power"
❌ "I'm staying on as advisor"
He just... trusted the code, trusted the community, and left.
Compare to every other project:
Ethereum: Vitalik still here, still influencing
Cardano: Charles still here, still selling
Solana: Anatoly still here, still pitching
Every shitcoin: Founders still dumping
Bitcoin: The creator has been gone since 2011, and the protocol still works perfectly.
That's not a bug, that's the ultimate feature.
Satoshi proved Bitcoin doesn't need Satoshi.
- He didn't build a company
- He built a protocol
Protocols don't need CEOs.
This young tech guy turned $27 into a massive fortune by buying Bitcoin for educational purposes
Back then in 2009 Bitcoin was worth pennies
To be exact $0.0054 for one Bitcoin
Kristoffer Koch bought 5,000 Bitcoins after coming across Crypto while he was researching and studying encryption
At the time of buying, he didn’t expect much, it was just a purchase based on his research
He was just someone who liked buying random tech things he never really used, even though his girlfriend thought it was a waste of money
After buying, he pretty much forgot they even existed and years passed
In 2013, Bitcoin started appearing all over the news as prices began to explode.
That’s when he suddenly remembered the purchase and thought, “Didn’t I buy something like that?”
He dug through old files, tried to remember the password to his wallet, and managed to log in
That forgotten $27 was now worth $886,000 (2013) from which he sold a big portion and used it to buy a luxury apartment in Oslo
If he had held all 5,000 BTC until today, they would be worth around $334 million
Back then in 2009 Bitcoin was worth pennies
To be exact $0.0054 for one Bitcoin
Kristoffer Koch bought 5,000 Bitcoins after coming across Crypto while he was researching and studying encryption
At the time of buying, he didn’t expect much, it was just a purchase based on his research
He was just someone who liked buying random tech things he never really used, even though his girlfriend thought it was a waste of money
After buying, he pretty much forgot they even existed and years passed
In 2013, Bitcoin started appearing all over the news as prices began to explode.
That’s when he suddenly remembered the purchase and thought, “Didn’t I buy something like that?”
He dug through old files, tried to remember the password to his wallet, and managed to log in
That forgotten $27 was now worth $886,000 (2013) from which he sold a big portion and used it to buy a luxury apartment in Oslo
If he had held all 5,000 BTC until today, they would be worth around $334 million
Each Bitcoin block has approximately $35 billion worth of infrastructure competing to solve each block.
A block currently is worth 3.125 BTC.
1 BTC is $11.2 billion of physical energy represented in a digital format in that 10 minute space in time.
1 BTC is super tricky to acquire, though not impossible.
3.125 BTC is pretty well impossible for most.
0.1 BTC represents about $1.1 billion of mining infrastructure and most people today have the means to have enough discipline to reach that goal.
Bitcoin is a digital orb of energy, and there are 1 million locked in time over the next 120 years that will trickle into circulation.
We are almost 50% into this Epoch.
Time is running out.
$BTC
A block currently is worth 3.125 BTC.
1 BTC is $11.2 billion of physical energy represented in a digital format in that 10 minute space in time.
1 BTC is super tricky to acquire, though not impossible.
3.125 BTC is pretty well impossible for most.
0.1 BTC represents about $1.1 billion of mining infrastructure and most people today have the means to have enough discipline to reach that goal.
Bitcoin is a digital orb of energy, and there are 1 million locked in time over the next 120 years that will trickle into circulation.
We are almost 50% into this Epoch.
Time is running out.
$BTC
Still unbelievable if you think that CryptoPunks were free to mint in 2017 and one sold for $23.7 million five years later
Nobody cared for 3 years
Average sale didn't even hit 1 ETH until 2020 and by late 2021 the floor was already 125 ETH
Over $500,000 for a 24x24 pixel face
Today still sitting at 29 ETH floor (~$60,000)
A pixel face someone minted for 12 cents is still worth more than most people's car
Nobody cared for 3 years
Average sale didn't even hit 1 ETH until 2020 and by late 2021 the floor was already 125 ETH
Over $500,000 for a 24x24 pixel face
Today still sitting at 29 ETH floor (~$60,000)
A pixel face someone minted for 12 cents is still worth more than most people's car
The Czech central bank became the first European central bank to buy Bitcoin.
Not a sovereign wealth fund, not a private institution but a central bank.
The same type of institution that told you Bitcoin was worthless, speculative, and dangerous is now putting it on its balance sheet.
This is what adoption looks like (and why gold went from a $15T asset to a $37T asset in 24 months)
Every central bank that buys Bitcoin makes it harder for the next one to ignore.
Game theory works in one direction.
Once your competitor holds a scarce asset, your cost of inaction goes up every day.
The dominoes are falling.
One balance sheet at a time.
Not a sovereign wealth fund, not a private institution but a central bank.
The same type of institution that told you Bitcoin was worthless, speculative, and dangerous is now putting it on its balance sheet.
This is what adoption looks like (and why gold went from a $15T asset to a $37T asset in 24 months)
Every central bank that buys Bitcoin makes it harder for the next one to ignore.
Game theory works in one direction.
Once your competitor holds a scarce asset, your cost of inaction goes up every day.
The dominoes are falling.
One balance sheet at a time.
A man's wife used their security cameras to steal his seed phrase and move MILLIONS out of his wallet
Ping Fai Yuen kept his Bitcoin on a Trezor, just like half of crypto bros
His wife set up CCTV cameras inside their own home and sat there watching him type in his recovery phrase
Got into the wallet and quietly moved all 2,323 BTC across several wallets like nothing happened
At the time it was already worth $60 million, today it would be $172 million
All of it now sitting across 71 different wallet addresses and hasn't moved since December 2023
His daughter warned him his wife was coming for the Bitcoin, so this man went full counter spy and wired the house with audio recorders
When he found out the money was gone he lost it, confronted her, and caught an assault charge
Pleaded guilty to assault in 2024
Police searched her place and found multiple hardware wallets and recovery seeds just lying around
Husband and wife were secretly recording each other the entire time, one to steal the Bitcoin and one to prove it
A married couple playing secret agent in their own living room over 2,323 Bitcoin
The case is still open
Ping Fai Yuen kept his Bitcoin on a Trezor, just like half of crypto bros
His wife set up CCTV cameras inside their own home and sat there watching him type in his recovery phrase
Got into the wallet and quietly moved all 2,323 BTC across several wallets like nothing happened
At the time it was already worth $60 million, today it would be $172 million
All of it now sitting across 71 different wallet addresses and hasn't moved since December 2023
His daughter warned him his wife was coming for the Bitcoin, so this man went full counter spy and wired the house with audio recorders
When he found out the money was gone he lost it, confronted her, and caught an assault charge
Pleaded guilty to assault in 2024
Police searched her place and found multiple hardware wallets and recovery seeds just lying around
Husband and wife were secretly recording each other the entire time, one to steal the Bitcoin and one to prove it
A married couple playing secret agent in their own living room over 2,323 Bitcoin
The case is still open
Satoshi Nakamoto listed his birthday as April 5 1975
April 5 is the day Roosevelt made it illegal for Americans to own gold in 1933
The government forced people to sell their gold at $20.67 an ounce
Then raised the price to $35 and kept the profit
1975 is the year Americans were allowed to own gold again
Out of 365 days and every year he could've picked he chose the one date tied to the government taking people's money and the one year they got it back
His account went silent in 2011
The only time it ever came back was in 2014 to post one sentence: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto"
April 5 is the day Roosevelt made it illegal for Americans to own gold in 1933
The government forced people to sell their gold at $20.67 an ounce
Then raised the price to $35 and kept the profit
1975 is the year Americans were allowed to own gold again
Out of 365 days and every year he could've picked he chose the one date tied to the government taking people's money and the one year they got it back
His account went silent in 2011
The only time it ever came back was in 2014 to post one sentence: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto"
What Happens during Bitcoin Halving ?
You can still send and receive Bitcoin the same way.
Your wallet still works.
Transactions still get confirmed.
The main impact of halving is on the long term supply of Bitcoin rather than everyday use.
Why Was Halving Designed This Way?
Bitcoin was designed to have predictable supply.
Traditional currencies can be printed by central banks. The supply can increase quickly if governments decide to create more money.
Bitcoin works differently.
The halving schedule is fixed in advance.
Everyone knows roughly how many Bitcoin will exist at any point in time.
This predictability is one of Bitcoin’s strongest features.
It allows people to understand the monetary system without relying on trust.
Will Halving Continue Forever?
No.
Halvings will continue until new Bitcoin creation eventually reaches zero.
By around the year 2140, miners will no longer receive newly created Bitcoin.
At that point, miners will earn income mainly from transaction fees.
Bitcoin will continue to operate even after the final halving.
A Simple Way to Think About Halving
Here is a mental picture.
In the early years, Bitcoin created new coins quickly.
Over time, creation slows down.
Eventually, it stops.
Halving is the mechanism that makes this gradual slowdown possible.
It is like a clock counting down toward the final Bitcoin.
Your wallet still works.
Transactions still get confirmed.
The main impact of halving is on the long term supply of Bitcoin rather than everyday use.
Why Was Halving Designed This Way?
Bitcoin was designed to have predictable supply.
Traditional currencies can be printed by central banks. The supply can increase quickly if governments decide to create more money.
Bitcoin works differently.
The halving schedule is fixed in advance.
Everyone knows roughly how many Bitcoin will exist at any point in time.
This predictability is one of Bitcoin’s strongest features.
It allows people to understand the monetary system without relying on trust.
Will Halving Continue Forever?
No.
Halvings will continue until new Bitcoin creation eventually reaches zero.
By around the year 2140, miners will no longer receive newly created Bitcoin.
At that point, miners will earn income mainly from transaction fees.
Bitcoin will continue to operate even after the final halving.
A Simple Way to Think About Halving
Here is a mental picture.
In the early years, Bitcoin created new coins quickly.
Over time, creation slows down.
Eventually, it stops.
Halving is the mechanism that makes this gradual slowdown possible.
It is like a clock counting down toward the final Bitcoin.
This guy built a $1.2 BILLION drug empire from a laptop in a library, got two life sentences, and still walks free today.
In 2011 a 26 year old physics grad named Ross Ulbricht launched a website called Silk Road.
Named himself "Dread Pirate Roberts" after a character from The Princess Bride.
The first product listed was magic mushrooms he grew in a rental cabin in Texas.
Silk Road became the Amazon of the dark web and you could buy ANYTHING anonymously using Bitcoin.
9.5 million Bitcoin was traded on the site, nearly half of all BTC that existed at the time.
At today's prices that's over $800 billion.
The FBI spent two years looking for him while an IRS agent solved it in his free time.
Ross had promoted the site on a mushroom forum under a fake name, then used the SAME fake name on another forum where he posted his real Gmail address.
Agents tracked him to San Francisco where he worked from cafés and a public library.
The day they arrested him, two undercover agents staged a fake couple's fight behind him in the library to distract him while another agent grabbed his laptop before he could lock it.
The screen showed him logged in as Dread Pirate Roberts.
On the laptop they found a file labeled "emergency" with his escape plan, destroy the laptop, destroy the phone, find a place on Craigslist for cash, create a new identity.
Two of the FBI agents investigating him got caught stealing Bitcoin from the case.
Ross got two life sentences plus 40 years with no chance of parole.
Served 11 years.
Trump gave him a full pardon in January 2025.
Someone anonymously sent him 300 Bitcoin after his release which are worth $31 million.
His prison clothes are on display at crypto conferences now like museum exhibits.
In 2011 a 26 year old physics grad named Ross Ulbricht launched a website called Silk Road.
Named himself "Dread Pirate Roberts" after a character from The Princess Bride.
The first product listed was magic mushrooms he grew in a rental cabin in Texas.
Silk Road became the Amazon of the dark web and you could buy ANYTHING anonymously using Bitcoin.
9.5 million Bitcoin was traded on the site, nearly half of all BTC that existed at the time.
At today's prices that's over $800 billion.
The FBI spent two years looking for him while an IRS agent solved it in his free time.
Ross had promoted the site on a mushroom forum under a fake name, then used the SAME fake name on another forum where he posted his real Gmail address.
Agents tracked him to San Francisco where he worked from cafés and a public library.
The day they arrested him, two undercover agents staged a fake couple's fight behind him in the library to distract him while another agent grabbed his laptop before he could lock it.
The screen showed him logged in as Dread Pirate Roberts.
On the laptop they found a file labeled "emergency" with his escape plan, destroy the laptop, destroy the phone, find a place on Craigslist for cash, create a new identity.
Two of the FBI agents investigating him got caught stealing Bitcoin from the case.
Ross got two life sentences plus 40 years with no chance of parole.
Served 11 years.
Trump gave him a full pardon in January 2025.
Someone anonymously sent him 300 Bitcoin after his release which are worth $31 million.
His prison clothes are on display at crypto conferences now like museum exhibits.
People understand fast lotteries.
Scratch tickets
Casinos
Meme coins pumping 100% in a week
But Bitcoin is something different.
It’s a lottery in slow motion.
Now imagine a future where Bitcoin becomes a global settlement asset or digital property layer.
Even at $1M per coin
0.1 BTC = $100,000
10 BTC = $10,000,000
But because it unfolds over years instead of minutes, most people ignore it.
They wait.
They assume the opportunity is gone.
The biggest opportunities rarely look like jackpots.
They look boring.
Slow.
And obvious only in hindsight.
Bitcoin might be the first lottery where you can study the probability before the draw.
Scratch tickets
Casinos
Meme coins pumping 100% in a week
But Bitcoin is something different.
It’s a lottery in slow motion.
Now imagine a future where Bitcoin becomes a global settlement asset or digital property layer.
Even at $1M per coin
0.1 BTC = $100,000
10 BTC = $10,000,000
But because it unfolds over years instead of minutes, most people ignore it.
They wait.
They assume the opportunity is gone.
The biggest opportunities rarely look like jackpots.
They look boring.
Slow.
And obvious only in hindsight.
Bitcoin might be the first lottery where you can study the probability before the draw.
Strategy is one of the four largest holders of BTC, alongside Satoshi, BlackRock, and Coinbase.
Because of STRC, they’re vacuuming supply at around 1,940 BTC per day, surging to roughly 5,700 BTC on peak record days.
If this pace and market conditions hold, Strategy could realistically surpass Satoshi’s estimated holdings by March 2027.
Because of STRC, they’re vacuuming supply at around 1,940 BTC per day, surging to roughly 5,700 BTC on peak record days.
If this pace and market conditions hold, Strategy could realistically surpass Satoshi’s estimated holdings by March 2027.
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