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Epic week at @AdoptingBTC El Salvador edition. #bitcoin
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Want to have your mind blown?
In 1971, the median household income was $9,030, or 220 ounces of gold.
In 2025, it was $87,460, or just 25 ounces of gold.
Your paycheck went up 10x.
Measured in gold, it fell 88%.
To earn what the median household earned in 1971, you’d need about $890,000 per year today.
That’s what fiat debasement looks like.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight at you, then they add you to their Long-Term Capital Markets Assumptions paper and predict you'll be the best-performing asset of the next decade.
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- 1913: "The income tax will only hit the top 1%."
- 1935: "Social security numbers will never be used for identification."
- 1971: "The gold suspension is temporary."
- 2001: "These surveillance powers are only for terrorists."
- 2020: "Two weeks to slow the spread."
- 2026: "CBDCs will never be used to control spending."
- You: "I'm noticing a pattern."
- Government: "There's no pattern."
- You: "That's what the pattern would say."
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They cannot tax you 20% more without you resisting it, so they print the money instead and take it through inflation.
You pay the same price either way except one method requires your permission (sort of) and the other one doesn’t at all.
Ron Paul said it is not a coincidence that the 20th century was both the century of central banking and the century of total war.
A lot of people think what makes Kaspa unique is the technology.
But the technology is really the consequence of a deeper philosophical difference.
Most crypto projects ask: How can we maximize performance without sacrificing decentralization?
Kaspa asks: How can we maximize decentralization without sacrificing performance?
That slight inversion of priorities changes everything.
It changes what the system optimizes for, which tradeoffs are acceptable, and ultimately what kind of threat model matters.
Kaspa and in particular the upcoming DAGKnight fork are built around the idea that a decentralized monetary network should remain resilient even under extreme failure scenarios like global infrastructure disruption, war, or other large-scale breakdowns.
Because fast digital coordination should not force people to choose between trusting a small group of node operators over a small group of banks.
For many applications, that distinction may not matter.
But for the applications where credible neutrality, censorship resistance, and resilience matter most, that ideological edge is the product.
Kaspa does not merely compete at the technological level.
It competes at the philosophical level and the technology is just the downstream consequence of following that philosophy to the end.
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Every concert should be filmed professionally & sent to ticket buyers via email afterwards.
That way, less people will be on their phones during the show. More living in the moment!
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“I want you to go back out there and hit a fuel number!”
“Hit a fuel number????”
“Hit a fuel number!!!!”
“What for???”
“Because you hit every other god damn thing out there. I want you to be perfect!”
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People excited about football and have no idea what fractional reserve banking is.
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No, no, Adam. He wanted you to notice and bask in the pride of being AMERICAN, watch great racing and patriotism on display. Not only that, this was privately funded, not government although it drove thousands of folks to the DC area that have never been (that’s economic impact for you). It allowed folks who have never been to see museums, monuments, the White House and AMERICAN history for the first time as well. And guess what, hundreds of thousands of AMERICANS, blue & red, as well as fans from all over the world loved the #Freedom250! 🇺🇸
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WAKE UP, IT'S RACE DAY 🇺🇸🏎️
@IndyCar takes the streets of Washington D.C. TODAY as we celebrate America's 250th. 🦅
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LESS THAN ONE WEEK UNTIL FREEDOM REVS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL. 🏎️💨
The countdown for the Freedom250 Grand Prix is on. 🏁
Mach 5: DeFlock mode ✅
📍 Use the DeFlock Map
We’re building a public map of ALPRs, AI surveillance cameras, drones, and connected surveillance infrastructure so communities can see what’s being installed around them.
The DeFlock App works great, too!
deflock.org
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I like that a car won the race today that was not saving fuel. That was a bad ass, balls out, final stint by Marcus Ericsson.
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Y'all know the Constitution says we're supposed to remove this current government, right?
HOW THEY ENGINEERED THE FAKE PANDEMIC
1. China released staged footage of people “dropping dead” in the streets; scenes never witnessed anywhere else in the world before or after December 2019.
2. A PCR test was rolled out that could not determine whether someone was actually sick. The vast majority of results were false positives.
3. The claim of asymptomatic transmission was heavily promoted to justify restrictions on healthy people and to force mass testing on the entire population; which led to tens of millions of false positive test results.
4. Tech companies and media outlets were mobilized to censor dissent and rebrand inconvenient truths as “misinformation.”
5. Behavioral psychologists were brought in to design fear-based messaging specifically intended to secure public compliance.
6. To keep the illusion of a deadly pandemic alive, they required excess mortality data.
7. Ordinary mild respiratory symptoms alone could not produce those numbers, so the population was subjected to sustained psychological pressure capable of triggering mass psychogenic illness.
8. Relentless fear messaging kept cortisol levels chronically elevated, weakening immune function, particularly among the elderly.
9. Social isolation, delayed medical care, and lockdown policies then generated the excess deaths needed to prop up the narrative.
10. Cloth and surgical masks were suddenly declared effective, something no serious public-health authority had previously recommended for ordinary respiratory pathogens, turning every face into a walking advertisement for fear.
11. People were conditioned to remain isolated “until the vaccine was ready,” buying authorities additional time to expand control.
12. Billions were injected with an experimental product that was claimed to stop both infection and transmission.
13. When those claims collapsed, the goalposts were moved: “Your shot won’t work unless the unvaccinated also take it.”
14. New “variants” were announced every few months to justify an endless series of booster campaigns.
15. A new condition - “long COVID” - was introduced to reframe mounting vaccine side effects.
16. Pharmaceutical companies recorded unprecedented profits, shielded by government contracts and complete legal immunity.
17. Anyone who raised objections was silenced, deplatformed, investigated, or publicly discredited.
18. Once the story became too strained to maintain, the pandemic was abruptly declared over, and the entire episode was treated as if it had never happened.
NEVER FORGET AND PROSECUTE FAUCI!
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To every developer who walked away from Ethereum because gas fees are insane:
To every Solana dev who got rugged by validator centralization:
To every Bitcoin dev frustrated by immutability: Kaspa's Toccata launches in 2 days.
PoW security. Ethereum-grade programmability. Bitcoin's UTXO model. Solana's speed.
8 builders are already shipping. The infrastructure is ready. The exchange support is live.
The only question: where will YOU be when the ecosystem explodes? #Kaspa































