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@ Anchorite
2025-04-04 14:27:44
"The Quiet War No One Admits They’re Fighting
Power doesn’t cling to systems because they’re moral. It clings because they’re useful. The rich and powerful aren’t blind to Bitcoin, they’re paralyzed by the cost of acknowledging it. To embrace Bitcoin is to admit the game they’ve mastered is rigged, and worse, that the rigging is their own doing.
The existing monetary system isn’t just broken; it’s a gilded prison. Those inside profit from its instability, its opacity, its endless elasticity. They lend what they don’t have, tax what they didn’t earn, and inflate away the debts of nations, all while pretending this is normal. But to call it corruption would force them to confess they’re not architects of order. They’re arsonists selling fire insurance.
Bitcoin is a mirror. It reflects the fragility of a system built on trust in institutions that have repeatedly betrayed that trust. When money is separated from state, when it becomes immutable and scarce, the levers of control rust shut. The powerful know this. Yet they hesitate, not because they doubt Bitcoin’s potential, but because exposing fiat’s rot would unravel their own legitimacy.
Consider the irony: many of these individuals privately admire Bitcoin. They see its resilience, its neutrality, its indifference to borders. But publicly embracing it would be an act of self-sabotage. To attack fiat is to attack the foundation of their influence, central banks, lobbying networks, the entire machinery of debt-based economics. Their wealth is tied to a system that rewards proximity to power, not innovation or merit.
History is full of revolutions where the old guard pivoted to survive. But this isn’t a revolution of muskets and manifestos. It’s a silent migration of value, a rejection of permissioned money. The rich and powerful face a dilemma: adopt the tool that threatens their dominance, or cling to a dying paradigm and risk being remembered as its last caretakers.
Their silence isn’t indifference. It’s strategy. Every day they delay is another day of extracting value from a system they know is terminal. But Bitcoin doesn’t negotiate. It ticks. It verifies. It outlasts.
The reckoning isn’t about morality, it’s about mathematics. Those who built empires on controlled scarcity will falter when faced with true scarcity. Those who mastered manipulating narratives will wilt before a ledger that cannot lie.
They’ll come for Bitcoin, eventually. But first, they must decide how much of their own corruption they’re willing to expose along the way." - @FiatHawk on Twitter