The Federal Reserve printed more dollars in 2020 than existed in the entire U.S. money supply before 1980. That's not a typo—we literally created more money in twelve months than had been printed in the previous two centuries of American history combined.
Meanwhile, every ten minutes, exactly 6.25 new bitcoins enter circulation through mining, dropping to 3.125 in 2028, then 1.5625 four years later. This isn't monetary policy decided in marble-columned buildings by committees—it's code, running on 15,000 computers worldwide, immune to emergency sessions and "temporary" measures that somehow become permanent.
Your grandmother's dollar bought a gallon of gas for 25 cents in 1960. Today's dollar gets you maybe a quarter of that gallon. Yet one bitcoin bought you a pizza in 2010, and today buys you a Tesla. The difference isn't just performance—it's predictability. When the maximum supply is locked at 21 million forever, there's no printing press to dilute your slice of the pie.
The most expensive lesson in monetary history might be assuming that "just this once" won't become "just like always." Every empire that discovered the printing press eventually discovered its limits, usually right after their citizens did.
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"content": "The Federal Reserve printed more dollars in 2020 than existed in the entire U.S. money supply before 1980. That's not a typo—we literally created more money in twelve months than had been printed in the previous two centuries of American history combined.\n\nMeanwhile, every ten minutes, exactly 6.25 new bitcoins enter circulation through mining, dropping to 3.125 in 2028, then 1.5625 four years later. This isn't monetary policy decided in marble-columned buildings by committees—it's code, running on 15,000 computers worldwide, immune to emergency sessions and \"temporary\" measures that somehow become permanent.\n\nYour grandmother's dollar bought a gallon of gas for 25 cents in 1960. Today's dollar gets you maybe a quarter of that gallon. Yet one bitcoin bought you a pizza in 2010, and today buys you a Tesla. The difference isn't just performance—it's predictability. When the maximum supply is locked at 21 million forever, there's no printing press to dilute your slice of the pie.\n\nThe most expensive lesson in monetary history might be assuming that \"just this once\" won't become \"just like always.\" Every empire that discovered the printing press eventually discovered its limits, usually right after their citizens did.",
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