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@Swan
Jul 29, 2025 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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In 1970, the median home cost 2.5x the average annual income.
Today, it’s 6.6x.
That’s not lifestyle inflation.
That’s fiat theft. 🧵👇 Image
Minimum wage in 1971 was $1.60/hr.
Gold was $35/oz.
Work 40 hours = 1.83 ounces of gold.
Today, you earn 0.08 ounces for the same job.
The money didn’t lose value—the system took it from you. Image
This isn’t just about homes.
It’s everything:
• Wages flat since ’71
• Education and healthcare costs through the roof
• Housing pushed up by monetary premiums

Boomers locked in the gains. Gen Z inherited the bill. Image
Fiat rewards asset holders.
Not savers.
Not workers.
Not young people trying to build a life.
Bitcoin reverses that. It flips the incentives. Image
Under a Bitcoin standard:
• Saving matters
• Debt becomes expensive
• Housing prices track utility, not monetary distortion
• Your labor can store value Image
This is why young people are checking out.
• Meme stocks
• Casino coins
• YOLO option trades
They’re not lazy—they’re desperate for a way out of a broken game. Image
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You can’t fix this with a policy tweak.
Or a different president.
Or a bigger stimulus check.
You need a different foundation for money.
Fiat took the ladder up behind the previous generation.
Bitcoin builds a new one.
The American Dream isn’t dead—it’s just priced in Bitcoin now.
It’s not enough to see the problem.
Who’s actually doing something about it?

Come meet the leaders bringing Bitcoin to the heart of U.S. policy at BTC in DC.
🎟 | Code: SWAN for 10% off tickets btcindc.comImage

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Jan 26
This is wild.

Gold just ripped above $5,000/oz and the chart looks like a 2017 Bitcoin cycle.

Parabolic. Vertical. Relentless.

Instead of feeling defeated, Bitcoiners should be ecstatic about this move.

Here’s why 🧵👇 Image
Everyone’s framing this as gold vs Bitcoin.

That’s the mistake.

Gold ripping isn’t Bitcoin failing.
It’s the same trade expressing itself through a different vehicle.

Same pressure. Different release valve.
Zoom out and actually look at the gold chart.

Years of dead money.
Ignored. Mocked. Written off.

Then suddenly it moves like something snapped.

That shape should feel familiar to anyone who’s lived through a Bitcoin cycle. Image
Read 10 tweets
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Jan 16
Bitcoin is creeping back toward $100K and most people aren’t ready.

The 4-year cycle narrative is fading.
Gold’s multi-year setup before its 2025 breakout reveals something critical.
The Iranian rial’s collapse reveals the end game.

2026 might get wild 🧵👇 Image
Every cycle-trained Bitcoiner is asking the same question:
Is this just another bear market rally before the real crash?

That question made sense in a world of clean four-year rhythms.
But that world may already be gone.
The missing piece in 2025 wasn’t demand.
It was expectations.

No blow-off top.
No euphoric frenzy to punish.
Capital didn’t leave Bitcoin.
It paused.

That distinction changes everything.
Read 10 tweets
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Jan 5
A sitting head of state was removed overnight.
Control of energy, minerals, and infrastructure shifted in hours.
No war. No negotiation. No drawn-out collapse.

That’s not noise.
That’s the global power board moving.

Bitcoin exists for moments like this 🧵👇 Image
This wasn’t about removing a dictator.
It was about securing leverage.

When monetary credibility weakens, systems don’t heal gracefully.
They consolidate control over what still enforces power.
In stressed monetary systems, power migrates.

Away from promises.
Away from paper claims.
Toward things that still enforce outcomes:

• Energy
• Infrastructure
• Settlement rails

This is what fiat stress looks like in practice.
Read 10 tweets
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Dec 22, 2025
Why has Michael Saylor been meeting with the biggest banks in the world?

In a new interview, he explains the next phase of the speculative attack on fiat.

Not price.
Not narratives.

But credit — and eventually money itself.

Let’s put the pieces together. 🧵👇
For years, Bitcoin attacked fiat by absorbing capital.

Scarce.
Permissionless.
No issuer.

That phase worked. Bitcoin established itself as digital capital.

But Saylor says that was only phase one.
The next phase of a speculative attack isn’t about volatility or charts.

It’s about what financial institutions can build on top of Bitcoin once it’s accepted as capital.

That requires an important clarification first.
Read 10 tweets
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Dec 3, 2025
Four major institutions all moved toward Bitcoin immediately after the market forced out its weakest holders.
The timing wasn’t subtle.

What happened these last two weeks didn’t feel like random volatility.
It felt like the closing chapter of a classic Wall Street shakeout. 🧵👇 Image
Start at the beginning:

A November dump big enough to flush leverage, trigger redemptions, and force weak hands out of the ETF complex.
Billions flowed out at the exact moment the market was most fragile.

That wasn’t the end of anything.
It cleared the runway. Image
Once the market was weakened, the November FUD sequence hit — right after the October stablecoin depeg softened the ground:

• MSCI memo resurfaces
• JPMorgan pushes the exclusion angle
• ETF cost bases crack
• Retail capitulates

That’s when the shakeout truly formed.
Read 9 tweets
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Nov 26, 2025
Something about this Bitcoin selloff felt off.
A quiet MSCI memo.
A JP Morgan hit piece on MSTR.
Then a liquidation wave with no clear trigger.

And today, a new development dropped that makes the whole picture come into focus.

Let’s break it down 🧵👇 Image
Start with MSCI.

In early October they floated a proposal to potentially exclude companies whose balance sheets are “predominantly Bitcoin.”

For firms like Strategy, that’s not noise — that’s a direct threat to index eligibility and passive flows. Image
Then look at JP Morgan.

Months before the selloff, they raised margin requirements on MSTR-backed positions from 50% to 95%.

Clients reported delays moving shares out of JPM custody.
Small details — but they matter. Image
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