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In fact, we made it inevitable. Palantir dropped a manifesto last weekend. 22 bullet points distilled from Alex Karp’s book The Technological Republic, posted to X with the casual framing of “because we get asked a lot.” I haven’t seen a reaction so widespread, unanimously opposed and viscerally aghast since... Read more

Dilution, Spreads, and the Modern Bitcoin Investor’s Dilemma via Kane McGukin at the Mesh Point This paper is the final in a three-part series examining Bitcoin Treasury Companies (BTC-TC). This third and final piece establishes the framework for viewing Bitcoin Treasury Companies as nothing more than new age version of... Read more

  Ratcheting Ourselves Through the Inflection Point Ray Kurzweil always framed the Singularity as a moment — some techno-rapture threshold humanity would stumble through like a portal in a video game. One side: regular civilization. Other side: incomprehensible machine superintelligence. Roll credits. About a year ago I put out a... Read more

  The Comfortable Collapse: Canada’s Decade of Managed Decline Originally via @JoeyTweeets on X There is a concept in ecology called a “shifting baseline.” It describes what happens when each generation accepts the degraded state of its environment as normal, because no one can remember what things looked like before... Read more

The Walls Are Going Up: Capital Controls Have Already Arrived in the First World     You’re not going to wake up one morning to a news alert that says “CAPITAL CONTROLS IMPOSED.” That’s not how it works in G20 countries. There’s no dramatic peso-style freeze, no Malaysian-style currency peg,... Read more

  The Politics Of Institutionalized Predation. “I become stronger as you become weaker, I absorb strength as yours flows into me. I become capable of this because I do not experience your pain, I don’t care about your loss, and I feel no regret about using, abusing, and devouring you.”... Read more

Personal Freedom In The Age of Mass Compliance What follows are a couple of excerpts from the last Bitcoin Capitalist Letter, which was a long-form piece that was a refinement of my overall long term investment thesis. It corrects for my biggest mistake in the previous model: the belief that... Read more

  This is Happening, This is Really Happening On New Year’s Day, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of the financial capital of the world, with his hand on a copy of the Koran, and in his inauguration speech, he proclaimed: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and... Read more

    “Blue Shoe Loves Gold and Bitcoin” Suddenly the likes of Goldman and  JP Morgan are talking about this and the mainstream press are framing it as “the so-called Debasement Trade” Bitcoiners, of course, have been talking about this for, well since the beginning. Except, it’s not a “trade.”... Read more

TL;DR: The Core vs Knots battle is an attack on the Bitcoin network. A monetary struggle no different than the fight to establish the Federal Reserve in 1913.... Read more

The Egregore of Far-Left Radicalism Is Wounded – But What Will Take It’s Place? Today’s post is excerpted from the October edition of The Bitcoin Capitalist Letter – get a special deal for Bombthrower readers here » “At the physical level, we are witnessing a war of structures, on the meta-physical level,... Read more

Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About… Everything I haven’t really been active on Facebook since the COVID era when it became pretty obvious to me that most of the people I grew up with or went to college turned into authority addicts and were thoroughly brainwashed by mainstream agitprop. They’re... Read more