MDB on Nostr: This genuinely disturbs me. The more I think from first principles, the more obvious ...

This genuinely disturbs me.

The more I think from first principles, the more obvious it becomes

an energy crisis is never just an energy crisis.

It is a pressure system placed on civilization itself.

I study Bitcoin because energy is the base layer of everything. No energy, no transport. No food distribution. No manufacturing. No heat. No mobility. No industrial output. And if you can disrupt that base layer, you do not need to control people directly. Their behavior changes for you.

High energy costs make everything downstream more expensive.
Food rises.
Rent rises.
Transport rises.
Production falls.
Debt dependence rises.
Freedom shrinks.
That is the part most people miss.
If energy is the ability to do work, then money is supposed to be stored work across time. But in the legacy system, they can debase the money and manipulate the energy inputs at the same time. That means they can attack both your present survival and your future savings in one move.
That is why Bitcoin matters so much to me.
Bitcoin is the first system I found that reconnects money to real-world cost. It cannot be printed for free. It has to be earned through energy, computation, and market competition. In a world where access to energy can be politicized, Bitcoin gives me a way to preserve the value of my labor in something harder to corrupt.
The lesson is simple:
Whoever controls energy can pressure society.
Whoever controls money can rewrite society.
Bitcoin is my response to both.