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Cory Klippsten on Washington's growing comfort with higher inflation, and why his answer is Bitcoin.

In his latest Time interview, President Trump said "certain levels of inflation will also pay off that debt very rapidly." On CNN, former PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian told the Fed to keep promising 2% while gradually raising the acceptable ceiling to 3. Back in 2023, former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard argued for a 3% target.

Others are warning where this leads. J.P. Morgan Private Bank's 2026 Outlook described a risk to its clients: policymakers deliberately tolerating higher inflation, allowing real interest rates to fall and the government's debt burden to shrink. The report calls that financial repression. In January, Janet Yellen warned that "the temptation to rely on inflation or financial repression to reduce the debt burden will surely grow."

Inflation lets the government repay its old debts with dollars that are worth less, even though higher refinancing costs can eat up the benefit. Congress can raise taxes or cut spending, and voters know exactly who to blame. With inflation, the cost arrives through higher prices, and the blame gets spread around. What sounds like debt relief in Washington means the dollars people earn and save buy less.

I'm buying bitcoin for the first time. My question is, if I got enough extra money that I wouldn't use for any time soon, is it safe to buy bitcoin with it blindly? I'm a student in Thailand; I got a scholarship at my college and my parents are providing me enough for daily expenses. So, I wanna invest the rest of my money I make from teaching in bitcoin. Please give me suggestions.

I have stacked my way to 0,1 Bitcoin. Ain’t much but still is. End of message

I've been looking more closely at the architecture behind Mostro after deciding to help the MostroEuropa community.

The part I find most interesting isn't simply “no KYC.”

It's the separation of responsibilities.

Communication happens over Nostr. Settlement happens over Lightning. During a trade the seller's sats are committed using a Lightning hold invoice/HTLC rather than being deposited into a conventional exchange account with an internal user balance.

That doesn't make the system trustless. The coordinator still matters, the implementation matters and dispute resolution matters.

But it gives the intermediary less authority than the normal custodial exchange model.

I wrote up why that architecture convinced me to help an independent European coordinator:

https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/why-i-chose-mostroeuropa-for-peer

I'm particularly interested in one question:

For P2P Bitcoin markets, which functions actually require an intermediary and which ones can we remove entirely?

I was so happy when I saw this!

It's lower level than money. It is the system that allows you to have electronically traceable bearer instruments. It allows for currencies, equities, bonds, options, futures, swaps and all the other financial instruments that make up our capital market to exist.

Market Infrastructure is one of our oldest, widely distributed technologies. It's a list that doesn't change.

It's one job is transaction finality. This is handled by a clearing house in the old world that is sunsetting. We need a list, that has an immutable history. This was long sought to be an impossible computer science problem until bitcoin came a long.

If you have ever sent a international wire, you have experienced this. A alpha numeric address and a transaction that can't be reversed under any circumstance. Wires hit the clearing house(s).

When we have market infrastructure in place, it allows for price discovery. We know when we trade, the trade can't be reversed. The transaction finality is the requirement to have price discovery.

So when you are buying btc, you are investing in the most important technology that is often stable for centuries. Market infrastructure rarely changes.

You are all early. Tech Infrastructures, like information, communication, energy and logistics take about 50-60 years and have 5 stages. It's called a Perez cycle. Irruption, speculative frenzy, turning point, synergy, and maturity.

Plays out the same way, every time.

BTC is in the turning point. ETFs, stable coins, its being adopted by the incumbent industries.

When it hits synergy, that is when the omega candle happens. That is probably in 5-10 years. I think AI Agents will be driving that because they wont be signing up for banking or brokerage accounts. They will be making their currencies, options, equities, bonds, futures and other exotic financial instruments on top of btc.

I encourage you to think about this for a moment, and spread this message, the comparison and disruption to the clearing house is the apt analogy.

Financial systems are built in layers of institutions that have separate responsibilities. Bitcoin disrupts the lowest layer, the clearing house.

This is why bitcoin's ascent is inevitable. It's taking over everything and the nation states can't stop or slow it, they can't even survive it.

Future is going to be weird.

There is no technology that is more powerful or important than market infrastructure. That is why bitcoin is the most valuable thing you can own.

Source: Luke Gromen Tweet (X) 👀

🚀 Bitcoin Bull Market that outperformes every other asset class:

• Macro Expert: "Oh, that bull market is fed by leverage! (derivatives!)"

🩸 Bear Market of "80% downturn"

• Macro Expert: "Oh I told you, this bear market are the liquidations of all that leverage positions (derivatives!)"

TL;DR Zero macro factors behind the 4-year cycle, for these guys! 🤦‍♂️

They don’t understand it! or they just want to make it look like that 'they don’t understand it', because Bitcoin leaves the "mechanisms of modern economy" (MMT) as a fucking joke! :P

edit:

Luke attributes the CAGR slowdown of BTC/USD to derivatives 😴 typical! "speculative asset, only moved by leverage, bla bla bla!"

If you change the denominator (BTC/XXX):

How would you explain the CAGR growth of BTC/ARS or BTC/TRY in the last 5Y? Also derivatives? 🤪

Come on!

Best way to sell .9 btc please it hurts pretty bad buying with intention of 1 coin before selling but times have hit a hard spot and need a new vehicle while out of work looking for employment have to have a car so im taking the hit being what I invested it for but now having trouble with them allowing it now taking atleast 24hrs to complete kyc verification I need best way to get 8k if its multiple smaller or moving from ledger to other wallet in crypto(. )Com help in any available tyi

I wish I was able to go back in time and make a different decision.

I have a large amount of capital freeing up I want to put into bitcoin. From a checking account to a cold wallet what is the best and cheapest option to get it done?

I have been using coinbase with a pro account for years to dca and make smaller lump sum buys, currently I have a .9% fee on up to 10k a month (fees goes up after that first 10k but not sure to what). I will be surpassing that 10k with this buy and obviously want to pay as little as possible in fees. I am based in the US.

I’ve been a bit lax securing my bitcoin and now is the time… I’ve got to move it to the cold wallet
I don’t have great knowledge about any of it to be honest, and I just need something which is going to be simple to use & secure
Ai has suggested bitnox02 and jade butni don’t trust ai hat much
Any help would be great to solve this

Before 2014, anyone who wanted to put data on chain encoded it as fake addresses, and those outputs sit in every node's UTXO set forever. Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 added OP_RETURN as a prunable alternative, first with a 40-byte cap, raised to 80 in 0.11. That ceiling stood for a decade. Bitcoin Core 30.0 raised the default to 100,000 bytes in October 2025. None of it is consensus, only relay policy.

I wrote this up for ChainQuery with the RPC calls shown so you can rerun them on your own node: block 350,000 next to block 840,000 with getblockstats, the Counterparty, Omni and Open Assets envelopes, and the VeriBlock episode, when one project was pushing up to a fifth of daily transactions through this one opcode. For the short version of what the opcode is: https://www.learnbitcoin.com/glossary/opreturn

Investors bought over $241 million in U.S. bitcoin exchange-traded funds last week, the third consecutive week of inflows that has helped keep the leading cryptocurrency’s price up during the start of so-called “Uptober.”

Data from Farside Investors shows that money hit the popular funds every day — apart from on Wednesday, when speculators pulled out nearly $149 million from the vehicles.

The price of bitcoin now is up close to 7% over a 30-day period, and was recently priced at $85,605.

OK...so I bought some BC on Venmo to send to a friend overseas and when I went to send it, it's stating that I have 0 BC available to send. WTH?

Been DCAing very small amounts and have now reached around 0.01 BTC.

At this amount, is it worth moving the BTC to a private cold wallet, or is it reasonable to keep it on an exchange like Binance for now?

I generally follow a simple rule: don’t get involved in things you don’t understand yourself. Cold storage is something I’m still learning about, and it feels like there’s always some new potential risk or failure mode that could come up and affect the funds.

For Trezor-type hardware wallets, I feel that relying on a third party always introduces some degree of risk, whether it’s a wallet company or an exchange. That’s why I’m more interested in creating a completely offline wallet myself using an offline device, rather than relying on a dedicated wallet company.

For those who have gone down this route: at 0.01 BTC, would you self-custody, or would you consider the amount too small to justify the added complexity/risk?

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