KYC was sold as “safety.” In reality, it’s surveillance. Upload your passport, hand over your life to a database, and hope it doesn’t leak.

People adopt Bitcoin not when it’s popular, but when the system they’re in stops working. Each wave brings a new marginal user, each with a different need.

Our financial system is bloated with complexity. Nearly everything of value gets financialized, adding more variables to the ideal investment portfolio equation. Is Bitcoin a force of minimalism in this increasingly financialized and complex world?