I've spent my career at the intersection of data, technology, and capital. Never seen a set up like this. You may not like what I am going to say here.
As a data engineer, I learned to see the world through systems and flows. As a venture investor, I learned to identify the tectonic shifts that create new worlds. As a holder of Bitcoin, I came to understand the foundational importance of immutable truth in a world of malleable narratives.
And now, running a family office, my daily task is to preserve and grow value across generations, forcing a long-term perspective that cuts through the noise of the present.
Seen a lot, from lots of different angles.. but with a focus on the same thing: wealth.
Here’s the part you may not like…
We are living through a war. It is not a war of armies and trenches, but of information and value. The part most people miss is that the central conflict isn't between left and right. It’s a far more fundamental battle: a death struggle between top-down centralization and bottom-up decentralization.
And in this fight for our future, two game changing technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Bitcoin, have emerged as the definitive toolkit for individual sovereignty.
The stakes could not be higher.
Strap in. We’re going “there”.
Control Through Debasement
To understand the stakes, you must first recognize the tactics of the incumbent, centralized powers. Their strategy is twofold, targeting the two most critical pillars of a functioning society: information and money.
Side note: we can have nerdy discussions one day about money being information, but let’s hold them separate for the purposes of this explanation.
Information first.
First, they debase information. Our news is manicured. The internet, once was once a beacon of open knowledge, is now a murky swamp of sophisticated reputation management (a polite term for lies), state-sponsored misinformation, and algorithmically amplified rage.
We are subjected to a strategy known as "flooding the zone" aka a deluge of contradictory and low-quality information designed not to convince you of a particular lie, but to exhaust your critical thinking until you conclude that the truth is unknowable. In this state of cynical apathy, you become easier to manage. They even employ a form of intellectual judo, where perfectly good ideas are intentionally touted by disreputable people to discredit reality itself. The goal is to shatter our shared understanding of the world, leaving us atomized and suspicious, unable to coordinate against a common threat.
They launder lies into reality using the media, academia and other control levers for information flow, too.
Next, the money.
They debase our money. Then they use academia to sell the idea that “inflation is normal”.
Yeah, it’s normal when you print unlimited money.
Our global monetary system is a masterclass in centralization. It is run by a small cadre of central banks that hold an absolute monopoly on currency creation. The value of your money, the unit in which you measure your labor, your savings, your entire economic life… is subject to the whims of a small, unelected committee.
Did you ever consider that?
Do you know what their policies are? Their backgrounds and key drivers?
Because everything you buy, sell, or even own is priced in this money, this cabal effectively controls what everything is worth.
Your paycheck is paid to you in a currency you have no control over, but a small group of people do.
They tell us the constant expansion of the money supply, the infamous "money printer" is a necessary tool for "economic stimulus." This is a carefully crafted narrative. Its primary function is not stimulus but a massive, silent redistribution of wealth. When new money is created, it doesn't flow to everyone equally. It is injected into the financial system, flowing first to the government and large financial institutions. These entities get to spend the new money at its current purchasing power. By the time it trickles down to the average wage-earner, the influx of new currency has diluted the value of all the existing currency. Prices rise. This is inflation. It is a hidden tax that systematically drains purchasing power from the hands of savers and wage-earners and transfers it to the asset-owners and the politically connected. It is a slow, grinding theft that punishes fiscal responsibility and rewards debt and speculation.
It is morally wrong. And for the first time in over a century, we have fixed it.
A Toolkit for Sovereignty
The antidote to centralized control is decentralization. Sounds easy enough. But what does that mean, really?
It is the principle of distributing power, trust, and function across a network rather than concentrating it at a single point.
This is not a new idea, but for the first time, we have the technological tools to implement it at a global scale.
Bitcoin: The Technology for Decentralizing Value
Bitcoin’s profound innovation is often misunderstood, deliberately obscured by narratives focusing on its price volatility.
They want you arguing over the price of bitcoin so you ignore the value.
To grasp its importance, you must stop thinking of it as a way to get rich quick and start seeing it for what it is: a technology to not get poor slowly. Bitcoin is a defense system. It is the world’s first and only asset with absolute, verifiable scarcity. There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin. No committee can vote to create more. No CEO can dilute its supply. It is a monetary policy governed by mathematics, not by politicians.
In a world where the value of every national currency is being systematically debased, Bitcoin offers an escape. It allows any individual to store their economic energy, their life's savings, in a form that cannot be arbitrarily inflated away. It re-establishes the concept of digital property rights. A transaction on the Bitcoin network is not a request; it is a command. It is final, censorship-resistant, and permissionless. It is the separation of money and state, a check on the power of the money printers. Since the fiat trap was first set with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, we have not had a reliable way to save for the future without exposing ourselves to the machinations of central planners.
Now we do.
And while BTC is focused on building blocks, AI is growing and evolving exponentially… every day.
AI: The Technology for Decentralizing Intelligence
Just as Bitcoin decentralizes value, AI is beginning to decentralize intelligence. For the last decade, the development of artificial intelligence was a highly centralized affair. It was dominated by a handful of Big Tech firms who controlled the three key ingredients: the vast datasets needed to train models, the elite talent capable of building them, and the immense computing power required to run them.
This concentration created information spigots. Vectors for control, really.
Powerful, centralized systems curate, bias, and censor our perception of reality at an unprecedented scale. The power to shape global thought was placed in the hands of the very same small, unaccountable group of people who benefit from the centralized monetary system. It is no coincidence that these corporate and financial elites congregate in the same exclusive locales: Davos, Geneva, New York, the City of London.
We are now witnessing an explosion of innovation in decentralized, open-source AI. The cat is out of the bag. Foundational models are now small enough to run on a personal laptop, giving every individual with a keyboard the power to build and experiment at the cutting edge. This is not merely a technological shift; it is a profound redistribution of power. Centralized AI gives a handful of companies the power to define reality for everyone. Decentralized, open-source AI gives every individual the power to build their own. Intelligence is escaping the confines of the corporate-government box and flowing into the network.
AI x BTC = Freedom
These two technologies, on their own, are revolutionary.
Together, they are transformative.
They are two sides of the same coin, creating a virtuous cycle that empowers the sovereign individual.
AI promises a future of radical abundance. It is a force multiplier for human potential, capable of generating an explosion of new ideas, breathtaking creativity, and unimaginable gains in productivity. It can solve problems we once thought unsolvable and create forms of art we have yet to dream of.
But abundance creates a new problem: how do we measure and store the immense value it creates?
If you invent a new life-saving drug or a revolutionary energy source using AI, how do you preserve the economic value of that contribution in a monetary system designed to decay? This is where Bitcoin provides the indispensable foundation. Bitcoin’s absolute scarcity provides the stable, incorruptible ledger needed to measure and store the value generated by AI’s radical abundance over time.
It is the digital bedrock in a world of infinite creation.
This synergy forms a powerful energy to power a free future. Decentralized AI ensures our ideas, our discoveries, and our speech cannot be easily silenced or manipulated by a central authority. Bitcoin ensures that the economic energy we create from those ideas cannot be easily debased or confiscated. One protects the freedom of your mind while the other protects the fruits of your labor.
Absolute scarcity and infinite abundance, in the same box.
This leads us to the fundamental choice of our era. Will we build a future that is permissioned and managed by central authorities, where your access to information and your ability to transact are privileges granted by a ruling class? Or will we build a future based on permissionless innovation, where the network is open to all, and the only limit is the scale of one's own talent and ambition?
The Great Forcing
If it feels like the world is becoming more chaotic, you’re not wrong.
The heat is being turned up everywhere for a reason. AI and Bitcoin are forcing the hand of the established, centralized powers. Their monopolies on information and money are being fundamentally challenged, and they are reacting with predictable desperation.
The relentless push to divide us along political lines, left versus right, red versus blue, is the ultimate distraction. They want us fighting each other in the street so we don't look up and see that the real conflict is between the sovereign individual and the centralized Corporate/Government technocratic control apparatus.
They want us arguing over rumors of wars, pronouns and cultural grievances so we don't have time to learn about self-custody and how to run our own AI models.
Decentralization is winning the fight, I am happy to say. Technology cannot be un-invented. Intelligence is flowing into the network, and the value is flowing into a monetary system beyond their control. This is the toolkit for building a more innovative and free world. It is a world where power is pushed to the edges, where individuals are sovereign, and where collaboration occurs on a voluntary, peer-to-peer basis.
This is the future I am investing in, not just with capital, but with conviction. The path forward will be volatile, as the old system thrashes in its decline.
But for the first time in a long time, the tools to build a better world are in our hands, not theirs.
Exactly where the power is destined to be. With the people.
AI x BTC = FREEDOM
That is the equation of the future.
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