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Start the week right with these ESSENTIAL #bitcoin reads 📚🧠⚡ From state-sponsored censorship to corporate Bitcoin adoption and a new frontier in cryptographic signatures - this week’s reads explore what’s at stake when freedom, finance, and innovation collide. — The fight for narrative control is global - and sometimes...

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Gareth Jenkinson

40,915 views • 10 months ago

EXPOSED: Carney Ignores the Will of the People | WATCH Stand on Guard (pod link below) 👇👇 Mark Carney’s secret spending spree has been exposed, and the details are shocking! What’s he hiding from Canadians? With over half a trillion dollars in unaccounted spending, consultants raking in billions, and Parliament being bypassed, this is a political catastrophe in the making. This video dives into the heart of the Carney government’s out-of-control spending and its audacious disregard for transparency. Are we witnessing the rise of a one-party state? From digital currency regulations restricting your financial freedom to farmers under attack, this government’s overreach knows no bounds. Independent journalism is under siege too, but we’re here to resist censorship and fight for the truth.
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EXPOSED: Carney Ignores the Will of the People | WATCH Stand on Guard (pod link below) 👇👇 Mark Carney’s secret spending spree has been exposed, and the details are shocking! What’s he hiding from Canadians? With over half a trillion dollars in unaccounted spending, consultants raking in billions, and Parliament being bypassed, this is a political catastrophe in the making. This video dives into the heart of the Carney government’s out-of-control spending and its audacious disregard for transparency. Are we witnessing the rise of a one-party state? From digital currency regulations restricting your financial freedom to farmers under attack, this government’s overreach knows no bounds. Independent journalism is under siege too, but we’re here to resist censorship and fight for the truth.

David Krayden

12,345 views • 1 year ago

HK Consensus 2025 SPECIAL EP 5: Rich Rines on Bitcoin's Path to $1,000,000 Bitcoin isn’t just a store of value anymore. With spot ETFs paving the way, institutions are now eyeing structured products, yield, and new ways to integrate BTC into onchain finance. In today's episode, sits down with Rich of Core DAO 🔶 to cover: > Bitcoin’s Institutional Shift > The Rise (and Fall) of Bitcoin L2s > Why Spot ETFs Were Just the Beginning > Bridging Bitcoin’s Utility Gap > The Long Game for Bitcoin DeFi Full episode links below. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Mantle Ad 01:36 HK Crypto Culturre 05:26 Appealing to Institutions 08:46 Changing Bitcoin’s 4-Year Cycle 12:28 Bitcoin’s Current L2 Space 16:15 What is Bitcoin’s Purpose? 20:24 Bitcoin L2s vs ETH L2s 21:06 Redstone Ad 25:39 Core’s Value in the Bitcoin Ecosystem 29:48 Borrowing Bitcoin 33:29 Preservation Through Bitcoin
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HK Consensus 2025 SPECIAL EP 5: Rich Rines on Bitcoin's Path to $1,000,000 Bitcoin isn’t just a store of value anymore. With spot ETFs paving the way, institutions are now eyeing structured products, yield, and new ways to integrate BTC into onchain finance. In today's episode, sits down with Rich of Core DAO 🔶 to cover: > Bitcoin’s Institutional Shift > The Rise (and Fall) of Bitcoin L2s > Why Spot ETFs Were Just the Beginning > Bridging Bitcoin’s Utility Gap > The Long Game for Bitcoin DeFi Full episode links below. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Mantle Ad 01:36 HK Crypto Culturre 05:26 Appealing to Institutions 08:46 Changing Bitcoin’s 4-Year Cycle 12:28 Bitcoin’s Current L2 Space 16:15 What is Bitcoin’s Purpose? 20:24 Bitcoin L2s vs ETH L2s 21:06 Redstone Ad 25:39 Core’s Value in the Bitcoin Ecosystem 29:48 Borrowing Bitcoin 33:29 Preservation Through Bitcoin

The Rollup

78,548 views • 1 year ago

When I say that Bitcoin is a currency of distrust, I'm just repeating what Bitcoin fans themselves say. There may be good reasons not to trust the banks and governments that create dollars, yens, and other currencies – but that doesn’t change the fact that the preference for Bitcoin is based on distrust of human institutions. Why is this an alarming development? Because the whole purpose of money is to create trust between strangers. Financial devices like currencies, bonds and shares – 90% of which are just data in computers – build trust between millions of strangers, who can then pool their knowledge and resources together, and cooperate. Humans control the world because we learned to do this. If we now lose trust in human institutions, this will limit the amount of money and handicap economic activity and cooperation. I hope that humanity finds a way to build trustworthy human institutions, instead of adopting technologies of distrust. #bitcoin #trust #distrust #crypto #currency #humanity #institutions #money #finance
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When I say that Bitcoin is a currency of distrust, I'm just repeating what Bitcoin fans themselves say. There may be good reasons not to trust the banks and governments that create dollars, yens, and other currencies – but that doesn’t change the fact that the preference for Bitcoin is based on distrust of human institutions. Why is this an alarming development? Because the whole purpose of money is to create trust between strangers. Financial devices like currencies, bonds and shares – 90% of which are just data in computers – build trust between millions of strangers, who can then pool their knowledge and resources together, and cooperate. Humans control the world because we learned to do this. If we now lose trust in human institutions, this will limit the amount of money and handicap economic activity and cooperation. I hope that humanity finds a way to build trustworthy human institutions, instead of adopting technologies of distrust. #bitcoin #trust #distrust #crypto #currency #humanity #institutions #money #finance

Yuval Noah Harari

1,508,274 views • 2 years ago

STRATEGY & BITCOIN CREDIT: THE GREATEST ASYMMETRIC BET This is my attempt to fully explain the massive opportunity with digital credit, starting from first principles by defining money and debt, and then articulating the massive opportunity Strategy has to do something totally unprecedented. We are on the frontier of changing the global financial landscape and a world being rebuilt on Bitcoin. A new monetary operating system. This is the biggest story in all of global finance, and a whole lot larger than worrying about leverage to outperform Bitcoin on a short time horizon. This is about fundamentally rewriting the rules of the capital markets and being first when the information isn't consensus. FEW.
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STRATEGY & BITCOIN CREDIT: THE GREATEST ASYMMETRIC BET This is my attempt to fully explain the massive opportunity with digital credit, starting from first principles by defining money and debt, and then articulating the massive opportunity Strategy has to do something totally unprecedented. We are on the frontier of changing the global financial landscape and a world being rebuilt on Bitcoin. A new monetary operating system. This is the biggest story in all of global finance, and a whole lot larger than worrying about leverage to outperform Bitcoin on a short time horizon. This is about fundamentally rewriting the rules of the capital markets and being first when the information isn't consensus. FEW.

Adam Livingston

173,954 views • 9 months ago

🚨 HUGE WIN FOR FREEDOM & BITCOIN! U.S. Senate just passed a bill banning the Federal Reserve from creating a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) until 2030 — by an overwhelming 89-10 vote! 🇺🇸 No government digital dollar. No programmable surveillance money. No Fed tracking or controlling every transaction. This is a massive victory for financial privacy, sound money, and decentralized crypto like Bitcoin. 🔥 The fight isn’t over — it still needs to clear the House and get to President Trump’s desk — but this sends a clear message: America rejects CBDC control. Bitcoin maximalists and liberty lovers, this one’s for you. What do you think — permanent ban next? 👇
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🚨 HUGE WIN FOR FREEDOM & BITCOIN! U.S. Senate just passed a bill banning the Federal Reserve from creating a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) until 2030 — by an overwhelming 89-10 vote! 🇺🇸 No government digital dollar. No programmable surveillance money. No Fed tracking or controlling every transaction. This is a massive victory for financial privacy, sound money, and decentralized crypto like Bitcoin. 🔥 The fight isn’t over — it still needs to clear the House and get to President Trump’s desk — but this sends a clear message: America rejects CBDC control. Bitcoin maximalists and liberty lovers, this one’s for you. What do you think — permanent ban next? 👇

🦅 Eagle Wings 🦅

18,125 views • 3 months ago