Farley on Nostr: Let us pause and take a deep breath—stop worrying about the *fiat price mechanism.* ...
Let us pause and take a deep breath—stop worrying about the *fiat price mechanism.* That fleeting number, measured in the very currency we sought to leave behind, is but a mirage. A distraction crafted to keep us tethered to the system we are rising above.
The fiat system thrives on control—of prices, of markets, of our very perception of value. It convinces us that our worth is tied to the whims of inflation, to the pulse of central bank interventions, to the manipulation of numbers that serve only the few at the top.
But we chose Bitcoin to escape that game. We walked away from fiat because we understood that its price mechanisms are shackled to today’s problems: inequality, debt spirals, and the ceaseless erosion of trust.
Bitcoin doesn’t need their price tags to prove its worth. Its value lies in what it *cannot* do: it cannot be printed, cannot be inflated, and cannot be manipulated by the hands of a select few. Its value is as pure as the energy and time it represents, unchanging and incorruptible.
To obsess over Bitcoin’s fiat price is to look backward, not forward. It’s to measure freedom with the ruler of oppression. Remember why you left the fiat system: to escape its illusions, to step into a reality where value is measured by scarcity, by fairness, and by the time you’ve poured into earning it.
Let the fiat price fall where it may—it is irrelevant. What matters is the quiet revolution happening beneath it: every block mined, every transaction validated, every satoshi spent in defiance of the old order.
So stop peering at the charts with anxious eyes. Instead, look to the future we are building—a world where money is honest, where value flows freely, and where the grasp of centralized control has no hold.
Bitcoin’s value isn’t in its price. Its value is in the freedom it gives us to rewrite the rules of the game.
The fiat system thrives on control—of prices, of markets, of our very perception of value. It convinces us that our worth is tied to the whims of inflation, to the pulse of central bank interventions, to the manipulation of numbers that serve only the few at the top.
But we chose Bitcoin to escape that game. We walked away from fiat because we understood that its price mechanisms are shackled to today’s problems: inequality, debt spirals, and the ceaseless erosion of trust.
Bitcoin doesn’t need their price tags to prove its worth. Its value lies in what it *cannot* do: it cannot be printed, cannot be inflated, and cannot be manipulated by the hands of a select few. Its value is as pure as the energy and time it represents, unchanging and incorruptible.
To obsess over Bitcoin’s fiat price is to look backward, not forward. It’s to measure freedom with the ruler of oppression. Remember why you left the fiat system: to escape its illusions, to step into a reality where value is measured by scarcity, by fairness, and by the time you’ve poured into earning it.
Let the fiat price fall where it may—it is irrelevant. What matters is the quiet revolution happening beneath it: every block mined, every transaction validated, every satoshi spent in defiance of the old order.
So stop peering at the charts with anxious eyes. Instead, look to the future we are building—a world where money is honest, where value flows freely, and where the grasp of centralized control has no hold.
Bitcoin’s value isn’t in its price. Its value is in the freedom it gives us to rewrite the rules of the game.