The "People's" Revolution

It’s a sad state of affairs that more people have yet to awaken to the reality of our monetary system.

The Fed will ultimately print dollars to cover deficits, unfunded liabilities, and debt that could otherwise not be repaid.

And the result will be inflation. Higher prices that hit Main Street - particularly lower economic classes, those with no/fewer assets to keep stride - the hardest. All the while, the answer is sitting right before us.

To be fair, schools don’t teach how the monetary system works; if they did, there’d be a revolt by morning, as Henry Ford once observed.

And for those who might otherwise be curious enough to learn… well, they’re busy trying to keep their head above water and enjoy the bit of free time they do have. Few people would prefer to have to learn the history of money, the inevitability of inflation, and the solution we know as “Bitcoin.”

It’s particularly sad because while financial firms are figuring this out and, once again, getting ahead, financial advisors seem slowest to encourage their clients into this once-in-a-lifetime reallocation to better, sound, digital money. To be fair, this makes sense: Bitcoin puts these guys out of business. You don’t vote for your own demise.

But the trend we’ve seen for what should be a bottoms-up, grassroots movement in 2025 has been disheartening:

In short, individuals are selling their Bitcoin to institutions. Massively.

It will always be an uphill battle because the purchasing power at play is so asymmetric. But I genuinely believe that the majority of this sell-side pressure from retail has less to do with economic necessity and more to do with fear, opportunism, or a gross misunderstanding of what Bitcoin is and where it is headed.

My goal with this newsletter, our podcast, and in the work I do at The Bitcoin Way has always been to wake people up to what is happening in the world. And there are many more like me, most of whom have larger audiences and more eloquent ways of delivering this message.

But for now, my call to action for you is to go orange-pill someone. Drop them a copy of The Big Print. For your nerdier friends, try The Bitcoin Standard and for those more financially-minded, give them Gradually, Then Suddenly.

Let’s keep plugging away and see if we can’t brute-force our way into a better future based on decentralized, digital money that nobody can print at will.

As long as Bitcoin lives, there is still a fight worth fighting.