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🚨SENATE RELEASES CRYPTO BILL DRAFT - THIS IS MASSIVE FOR BITCOIN🚨

The Senate Agriculture Committee just dropped a massive crypto market structure bill…

…and buried inside it is the most pro-Bitcoin federal language we’ve ever seen.

Nobody’s talking about it yet. But you should.

Because this is a regulatory nuke.

🧵Why this is HUGE👇Image
First: Congress finally defines “digital commodities”…

And guess what fits the definition perfectly?

✅ Bitcoin
❌ Securities
❌ Anything depending on an issuer
❌ Anything needing managerial effort

This is Congress quietly saying:

Bitcoin is not a security, it’s a commodity.

That changes everything.
Second: The bill creates fully regulated CFTC-supervised spot Bitcoin exchanges.

This means:

• clean market structure
• real surveillance
• stronger custody rules
• predictable listing standards

Translation: Wall Street just got the green light to trust spot Bitcoin infrastructure.
Third: The bill explicitly protects self-custody and peer-to-peer transactions.

Yes, Congress wrote in black-and-white:

You’re allowed to hold your own keys.

You’re allowed to transact P2P.

This is the first time U.S. law has formally acknowledged Bitcoin’s sovereignty principles.

Huge win.
Fourth: Corporate treasuries now have the clarity they’ve been begging for.

Combine this bill with new FASB rules, and CFOs can finally say:

“Yeah, we can put Bitcoin on the balance sheet.
There’s a legal framework now.”

This accelerates Bitcoin adoption by YEARS.
Fifth: This bill is the foundation for the next era of U.S. Bitcoin financial rails.

With defined CFTC authority + registered exchanges + qualified custodians, we can now build with CLARITY:

• Bitcoin-backed credit
• BTC treasury ladders
• BTC money-market equivalents
• Insurance + lending products
• Enterprise settlement rails

This is how trillions come in.
Bottom line:

This bill is the most important pro-Bitcoin signal from Congress to date.

It protects self-custody, legitimizes Bitcoin, clarifies the rules, and unlocks institutional adoption at scale.

The Bitcoin regulatory endgame is arriving faster than anyone expected.

"The bill - a top priority for both the politically powerful crypto industry and President Donald Trump - is designed to provide the “regulatory clarity” that digital asset executives and lobbyists have long argued they need from Washington."

Strap in.

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🔥STRC = TAX-FREE DIVIDENDS FOREVER?!?🔥

Using Bitcoin, Saylor created STRC.

It currently pays MONTHLY dividends at a variable rate that is backed by ever-appreciating Bitcoin instead of shaky cash flows.

But is it also a tax-deferred yield reactor that legally outsmarts the IRS?!?

Let's look into it:Image
Traditional companies pay dividends from profits → that’s taxable income.

$STRC pays “dividends” from new equity issuance → that’s Return of Capital (ROC).

Return of Capital ≠ income.

It’s just your own basis being returned to you… tax-deferred.Image
The IRS says:

ROC reduces your cost basis.

You owe tax only when you sell for more than your basis.

But here’s the catch... STRC’s share price is pegged at the $99-101 range.

They literally adjust the dividend rate to keep it there.

So when are you going to realize a large gain?

NEVER.
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🧵AI, Bitcoin, & The Great Convergence

You have 5 years to stack as much Bitcoin as possible before AI renders your labor obsolete.

We stand at the event horizon of humanity's most profound economic metamorphosis.

Here's how to position yourself accordingly 👇Image
THE PROMETHEUS MOMENT

IDC's projection of $19.9 trillion AI-generated GDP by 2030 represents more than economic growth.

It's documentation of a new species of value creation emerging from silicon and code.

Every dollar invested in AI models generates $4.60 in output, but here's the philosophical reckoning:

That 4.6x multiplier isn't just efficiency, it's the mathematical proof that human cognition is being distilled into algorithmic essence.

We're witnessing the industrialization of consciousness itself, where thought becomes commodity and intelligence becomes infrastructure.

The question isn't whether this benefits humanity, but whether humanity remains economically relevant in its wake.
THE LOGISTIC DETONATION

Inference costs collapsing 85% in 24 months signals something far more profound than technological progress.

It's the compression of human cognitive value into near-zero marginal cost.

When AI task execution drops below $0.01, we cross the Rubicon where algorithms become economically superior to humans in domains we never imagined surrendering.

History reveals that when transformative technologies breach this price threshold, adoption doesn't climb - it detonates.

The S-curve doesn't negotiate; it obliterates.

We're entering the 2-3 year window where the old world dies and the new one calcifies.

Most will mistake the transition for turbulence.
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🧵HOW BITCOIN WILL END EVERY WAR

Every war, every genocide, every imperial conquest - they all share ONE common ingredient that nobody talks about.

And for the first time in 5,000 years, we have the technology to eliminate it forever.

I'm about to reveal the most suppressed truth in human history.👇Image
The most horrifying statistic you've never seen:

Humanity spent $2.7 TRILLION on instruments of death in 2024.

That's $7.4 billion EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Meanwhile, the US government now pays MORE in debt interest ($890B) than its entire military budget.

We're literally borrowing money to kill people.

Let that sink in.
Here's the dirty secret they don't teach in history class:
NO GOVERNMENT has EVER funded a major war through taxation alone.

📊 The real war funding formula:

Honest taxes: ~22%
Future debt slavery: ~58%
Invisible theft via money printing: ~20%

Translation: Every bullet fired is paid for by robbing your children's future.
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The dam is breaking.

As you read this, the global monetary system is IMPLODING.

Bitcoin-backed lending is the neutron bomb that VAPORIZES 500 years of central banking.

This is how digital scarcity is being WEAPONIZED👇Image
💡 THE GENIUS REVEALED

Here's the devastating simplicity:

Borrow melting fiat against appreciating Bitcoin.

Never sell your sats, just mortgage them.

Repay loans with currency that loses 15-20% purchasing power annually while your collateral doubles every 3-4 years.

It's like borrowing Monopoly money against Fort Knox gold, except the gold multiplies and the Monopoly money catches fire.
⚔️ SPECULATIVE WARFARE EVOLVED

Traditional speculative attacks required massive capital to short weak currencies.

This time, every individual becomes George Soros.

Lock your Bitcoin, mint dollars, buy more Bitcoin, repeat.

You're not just betting against fiat... you're actively draining its lifeblood while building an impenetrable fortress of digital scarcity.
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Enter: The Poor Man’s Covered Call (PMCC)

A dark financial spell.

A degenerately efficient income engine.

🧵Here’s how it works👇Image
🚪Step 1: Don’t Buy the Stock

MSTR is trading at $341.

100 shares = $34,100.

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Instead, buy a LEAPS call - a long-term option that acts like the stock.

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• Jan 2027 $200 Call
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This is your rent check.

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Congrats, you’ve become a financial parasite in a tux.
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I just cracked the code on why Bitcoin feels RELIGIOUS to so many people.

It's not the money. It's not the tech.

It's because Bitcoin is the first time in human history we've digitally encoded the Logos...

The fundamental rational principle that ancient Greeks believed held the entire universe together.

Let's unpack it👇Image
Let me blow your mind with etymology:

λόγος (logos) = "to gather, to speak, to reckon"

Ancient philosophers weren't just being poetic.

They discovered that reality itself has a LOGICAL STRUCTURE.

Every true statement, every law of physics, every mathematical proof - they're all expressions of this cosmic ordering principle.

The universe literally thinks.
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Translation: The rational structure of reality IS the creative speech-act of God.

Every time you discover a truth, you're touching the mind of the divine.

Every logical conclusion is a prayer answered.
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