This afternoon I testified at the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce hearing in favor of SB 21, to establish a Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Thank you @DrSchwertner for introducing the bill, @LtGovTX for making it a legislative priority, and @DonnaCampbellTX for

“How a 2014 Essay Shockingly Predicted the Era of Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries” https://t.co/lu9sZz1ApL

Gold needs a lot of new buyers to keep prices stable/higher. In 2024, ~3,660 tons were mined and ~1,370 tons recycled. At current prices, thats ~$680B new gold that must be bought. For Bitcoin, ~164,000 new bitcoin is mined per year now. That's ~$24B new supply to be bought.

Hi!✌️Personally, I’m not a fan of vibes-based trust. First VERIFY, then trust, is my motto. Which is why Signal is open source. We want everyone to be able to inspect our code, and our encryption protocol, and see for themselves the lengths we go to to protect your comms and

The easiest way to pay with gold is to get in your car and drive to the recipient’s home/office to hand deliver the gold to them. Let that sink in.

How do you use gold on the internet? Mailing with USPS to pay for ecommerce seems impractical.

Civilization requires oxygen to breathe but we don't use it as a monetary medium. The utility value of a commodity money might be what enables it to initially gain an agreed upon value, but it directly interferes with its usefulness as a monetary medium.

@BitcoinPierre @J0SH_SPEED @Omamba256 Gold proponents often exhibit bias because Bitcoin disrupts their narrative of gold as the ultimate store of value, exposing its logistical flaws like storage and transport. They've invested emotionally and financially in a physical asset paradigm that Bitcoin renders obsolete

Bigger and better! @BitcoinConner welcome to @btcpolicyorg ! https://t.co/gLZVMwT3k8

Bitcoin Policy Institute Names Former Sen. Lummis Counsel Conner Brown as Head of Strategy.

Today is the start of an Era. This morning is my first day at Bitcoin Policy Institute as Head of Strategy. BPI is the honey badger of policy in DC. We are a small but mighty team of uncompromising advocates pursuing success for both Bitcoin and America. I can’t wait to help

@patato_ass @BitcoinPierre Bitcoin code is open and verifiable

It would be far too expensive to audit every bar of gold in the world, nobody knows what % is tungsten. Bitcoin global supply is trivially auditable.

How do gold bros know their stack isn’t just chocolate?

Gold influencers hate this question, they don’t have a reasonable answer.

You can’t email gold. You can’t teleport gold. You can’t divide gold into a billion pieces and send it across the world at 2am. Congrats, you invented a shiny rock. Bitcoin invented civilization 2.0.

Gold is orders of magnitude more expensive in transaction costs to buy/sell than bitcoin.

“Buy your underwear using gold.” That’s their argument?

Nanoforges and transmutation reactors, controlled quark–gluon plasmas that rearrange protons at industrial scale, will “print” 400‑oz London Good Delivery bars by the container‑ship load. Gold isn’t as scarce as people think long term.

When humanity unlocks access to the 16‑Psyche–sized asteroids whose spectral scans suggest tens of trillions of troy ounces of gold, autonomous refinery drones will ferry bullion back to Earth until the yellow metal’s supply curve looks like that of beach sand.

Funny how car bros keep bashing horses… when they literally branded cars with “horsepower”. 😂