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Adam O’Brien

Inspiring the next generation to reclaim freedom
Enable independence '@bitcoinwell'
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2026-03-19 13:31:10 UTC

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This was such a fun conversation! I’m so bullish on bitcoiners exploring more than just the financial impacts of bitcoiners
Thanks for having me on @nprofile…qsfc 🙏🏼
#nevent1q…lxru

2026-03-16 16:17:51 UTC

The last bitcoin will be mined sometime around 2140. The protocol scheduled that before anyone alive today was born.
No emergency meeting can move that date, no inflation report can accelerate it, no government can delay it.
Try naming one other financial instrument with a

2026-03-16 15:10:59 UTC

Saylor is buying bitcoin by the billions and people are still debating whether they should buy a few hundred dollars worth? The gap between the people who understand this and the people still "waiting to see what happens" is going to look embarrassing in hindsight.

2026-03-14 20:04:56 UTC

Just launching the btc price LOL

2026-03-14 19:58:56 UTC

This is why open source code is so valuable

2026-03-14 16:54:48 UTC

When the money supply gets inflated, the people with the fewest assets absorb the most damage. The single mother with $3,000 in a savings account loses more of her real purchasing power than the fund manager with $3 million in equities.
Inflation is regressive, and bitcoin is

2026-03-14 16:50:43 UTC

People treat "the government will just ban it" like it's a checkmate.
China tried. Multiple times.
The most powerful surveillance state on earth couldn't stop peer-to-peer value transfer between consenting individuals.
If China couldn't ban it, the argument is over.

2026-03-13 21:45:47 UTC

Running a node costs less than a Netflix subscription.
You download the software, sync the chain, and become a fully sovereign participant in the Bitcoin network, verifying your own transactions, holding your own copy of the ledger, trusting no one.
Most people don't do it. But the fact that anyone can is what makes the whole thing work.

2026-03-13 13:39:32 UTC

The sat is going to be the unit of account.
Not BTC, sats. 100 million of them per coin.
You'll buy coffee in sats the same way you buy things in cents today. And the people laughing at that right now are the same people who thought internet shopping was a phase.

2026-03-13 02:41:52 UTC

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Lost em 🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-03-13 02:41:18 UTC

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But openclaw can 😭

2026-03-13 01:33:10 UTC

Gold has been "sound money" for thousands of years and governments STILL found a way to confiscate it, ban its ownership, and eventually abandon the standard entirely.
That's not a knock on gold specifically but rather a knock on any asset that requires physical custody and can be seized by force.
Self custody fixes this.

2026-03-13 01:26:49 UTC

My opsec is weak today.
Wish my luck crossing the border by ordering this 100% heavy cotton sweater for $69
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2026-03-13 00:17:39 UTC

Banks charge you fees to hold your own money, lend your deposits out at 8x leverage, pay you 0.4% interest on the balance they're profiting from, and then run ads about how much they care about your financial future.
The audacity is genuinely something else 😭

2026-03-13 00:12:17 UTC

His prompt skills are low key pretty good
This is 0 input from me
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2026-03-11 19:35:25 UTC

The idea that managing your own wealth is somehow “too complex” for a normal person is condescending, and it’s exactly what the custodians need you to believe so you hand everything to them.

2026-03-11 19:29:14 UTC

The bitcoin community’s biggest gift to the world is proving that sound money is possible without a central authority.
The biggest threat to that gift is bitcoiners acting like the movement is theirs to gatekeep.
You don’t own bitcoin network, and it doesn’t belong to the people who got there first. It belongs to ANYONE who wants to opt out of a broken system.
Stop making the door smaller.

2026-03-11 02:50:28 UTC

STRC just had its best day yet, and I respect what's being built.
Bitcoin as the foundation of a new capital markets stack is exactly where this was always heading.
My only note: don't stop there.
A claim on bitcoin is not bitcoin. The whole point is to hold the thing itself. Self custody is key!

2026-03-10 16:20:01 UTC

“Bitcoin is just for bad traders” is a new one I heard 💀

2026-03-10 16:19:56 UTC

A CBDC gives the central bank a direct line to your wallet with no buffer, no intermediary, no protection.
Right now there's a layer between government policy and your spending: commercial banks, legal process, institutional friction. A CBDC deletes that layer entirely.
You don't have to believe in conspiracies to recognize that's an enormous amount of power to hand ANYONE.

2026-03-10 16:19:44 UTC

Paper bitcoin, ETFs, funds, custodians, is going to be the subprime mortgage of this cycle.
Everyone's going to feel rich on paper until the moment they need to actually move it and realize the instrument they own isn't the asset they thought they had.
History keeps rhyming...

2026-03-10 16:19:38 UTC

People ask me if bitcoin can survive a world war.
Bitcoin survived China "banning" it multiple times. It survived exchange collapses, exchange hacks, government seizures, and a dozen market crashes that were supposed to kill it.
The question isn't whether bitcoin can survive chaos. It's whether or not your bank can!!

2026-03-07 17:55:38 UTC

Just a matter of time before it comes back
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2026-03-07 16:25:28 UTC

Jack Dorsey built a protocol that sends bitcoin over bluetooth mesh networks.
No internet. No cell towers. Peer to peer, device to device.
Wanna know what bitcoin looks like in a scenario where governments shut down the internet?
It looks like that.
The people betting against bitcoin's sovereignty because "the government controls the internet" are fighting the last war!!

2026-03-07 02:25:02 UTC

The Fed was sold to the public as a stabilizing force, a backstop against deflation, a lender of last resort.
What it actually built was a system where the people closest to the money printer win first and the people furthest away lose last.
This is the Cantillon effect, and it was always going to produce this outcome. Buy bitcoin.

2026-03-07 00:24:54 UTC

Every company sitting on a pile of cash is holding a massive liability.
And within 5-10 years, cash reserves on a balance sheet will look the same way leaving money in a savings account looks today, obviously wrong in hindsight.
Holding bitcoin on the balance sheet WILL become the new norm.

2026-03-06 23:24:46 UTC

There are millions of coins sitting in bitcoin wallets from 2009 untouched, and if quantum computing ever gets close enough to crack those keys, those coins will move.
The entire network will see it before it becomes a systemic problem, and the protocol will respond. That's your signal.
Satoshi's coins are the canary in the quantum coal mine.

2026-03-06 22:24:40 UTC

The sun is a mining rig.
Wind is a mining rig.
Any stranded energy on the planet that used to have no buyer now has one: bitcoin miners.
That's the part people miss when they argue about "energy consumption."
Bitcoin is the only buyer that can show up anywhere on earth and turn EXCESS power into money. So no, bitcoin isn't an energy "waster".

2026-03-06 21:24:33 UTC

Most people still use banks because nobody taught them not to.
That's it.
Not because banks are good, and not because bitcoin is hard.
There's just a knowledge gap and the banks have a massive financial incentive to keep open. Every confusing fee, every fine print paragraph, every "for your protection" policy exists to make you feel like you need them.
You don't. Opt out.

2026-03-06 05:24:06 UTC

The public school system was designed in the industrial era to produce factory workers who follow instructions, show up on time, and don't ask too many questions.
The economy changed, the schools didn't.
Your kid is being prepared for a world that no longer exists by an institution that benefits from them not noticing. This is why I homeschool.

2026-03-06 04:23:59 UTC

A wife who submits to a husband who doesn’t sacrifice isn’t honoring scripture.
A husband who demands submission without laying down his life isn’t either.
Biblical marriage shouldn’t be a power structure. It should be a covenant of mutual sacrifice.

2026-03-06 00:23:41 UTC

Our unpopular opinion is that opsec is generally not that important 😭 @halstonvalencia: “you’re more at risk wearing a luxury purse”

2026-03-05 23:53:34 UTC

Iran, Silver, AI & Bitcoin FUD | Bitcoin CEO & Gen Z REACT

2026-03-05 02:22:56 UTC

Everyone's celebrating corporate bitcoin treasuries, but let's be honest, a company that holds bitcoin and has no real business, no real product, no real cash flow is just a leveraged bet.
Within a decade, every serious public company will hold bitcoin as a reserve asset because inflation makes cash a liability.
The winners will be the ones who built something real on top of it, not the ones that simply hold it.

2026-03-04 21:52:43 UTC

A CBDC is a direct line from the central bank to your wallet with no commercial bank buffer in between.
Right now, when a government wants to restrict your spending, they have to go through institutions, laws, and processes.
A CBDC eliminates all of that.
They can freeze, program, and condition your money based on your behavior. This is a stated functionality.
And you're still not buying bitcoin??

2026-03-04 18:52:33 UTC

Proof of reserves sounds responsible until you think about what it actually does.
You're publishing the exact size and location of your bitcoin honeypot on the internet.
Congratulations, you just made yourself the most attractive target in the room lol
The real answer isn't proof of reserves, it's not holding customer bitcoin at all! If a platform can't be hacked for your coins, no audit is necessary.

2026-03-04 04:52:05 UTC

It's so funny how China has "banned" bitcoin multiple times.
Multiple times....and yet here we are.
You cannot ban something that runs on rules instead of rulers. Every "re-ban" is just them admitting that the last attempt failed.
Every crackdown is just more proof that they can't stop it, and they know it. Bitcoin was built to be resilient.

2026-03-03 22:51:49 UTC

Your bank told you self-custody is too hard and too risky. Think about why they'd say that.
They need your bitcoin sitting in their system because the moment you take self-custody seriously, they lose.
The "difficulty" of self-custody just feels like an organic marketing campaign funded by the people who profit when you stay confused.
Buy bitcoin. Put it in cold storage.

2026-03-03 21:51:41 UTC

The biggest threat to bitcoin isn't governments, it isn't banks, and it isn't even quantum computing.
It's the community eating itself alive.
Maximalists fighting over things that don't matter, infighting on Twitter, gatekeeping, purity tests, all while the most significant monetary shift in human history is playing out.
The banks are buying. The institutions are buying. The governments are buying. And we're arguing with each other??
That's the Achilles heel. Get your eyes back on the mission.

2026-03-03 21:21:35 UTC

The concept of a “real asset” is one of the biggest financial lies ever sold to the middle class.
You work to earn money, that’s the first job.
Then you’re told you have to invest it wisely to preserve it (fiat games), which is the second job. They tell you to invest in traditional assets, but gold is useless, real estate bleeds cash, and stocks get diluted.
There’s no asset that just holds your labor for you. Except one 🧐

2026-03-03 16:14:18 UTC

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Typo - it’s proverbs 13:22

2026-03-03 06:50:55 UTC

Proverbs 22 says a good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children.
That sounds like a standard more than a suggestion.
Hard money, low time preference, generational thinking.

2026-03-02 16:50:29 UTC

Your kids are growing up in a world where the best information is free, the best teachers are accessible, and the best money in history is available to anyone with an internet connection.
The opportunities available to this generation are extraordinary. Our job as parents is simply to make sure they’re equipped to see and use them.
This is why my wife and I chose to homeschool.
(This is a game my son built with @cursor_ai)
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2026-02-28 04:48:48 UTC

My favourite thing to say to my openclaw 🦞
Let’s go through <subject>. Summarize <file/data> for me and tell me how it affects our workflow

2026-02-28 03:18:40 UTC

Nobody taught you in school that the Federal Reserve is a private institution.
Nobody taught you that banks lend money they don't have.
Nobody taught you that inflation is a hidden tax.
But they did teach you that the system "works" and questioning it is crazy. Interesting :)

2026-02-28 02:48:35 UTC

The dollar losing purchasing power isn't the end of the story. Every generation that watched its money get debased eventually built something better.
This generation has bitcoin.
And I promise you, that changes everything about what comes next. So to Gen Z, don't lose faith and don't give into the doomerism.

2026-02-28 01:48:28 UTC

Sound money produces something fiat never could:
a reason to think long term.
Because when your money holds value, saving makes sense.
When saving makes sense, planning makes sense. When planning makes sense, families get built, communities get rooted, and civilization compounds forward.
Bitcoin isn't just financial, it's generational.

2026-02-28 01:18:22 UTC

The child who spends summers reading, building, exploring, and having real conversations with adults will outperform the child who spent those same summers in structured institutional programs.
Unstructured time is where curiosity becomes competence.

2026-02-28 00:18:16 UTC

REITs in 2026 are dumb.
You’re buying illiquid assets, managed by people taking fees, denominated in a currency losing value every year.
$STRC would be a much better investment.

2026-02-28 00:18:10 UTC

The pace of AI and robotics productivity improvement are fundamentally incompatible with our debt based monetary system.
Well said @lukegromen

2026-02-27 17:16:03 UTC

Biblical marriage is a partnership with defined roles and infinite potential.
A husband who lays his life down and a wife who builds with him is one of the most powerful economic and spiritual units in existence.
The family is a foundation everything else gets built on.
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2026-02-27 04:45:37 UTC

Block laid off almost half of their employees today. AI is not going to take everyone’s jobs, but yes, it will be incredibly important for you to adapt.

2026-02-27 00:45:25 UTC

Sound money produces long term thinking.
Long term thinking produces strong families.
Strong families produce stable communities.
Stable communities produce accountable institutions.
Inflating the money supply brings shorter time horizons. And shorter time horizons destroy everything downstream.

2026-02-26 23:15:17 UTC

Is it really bitcoin?? How to evaluate bitcoin treasury companies

2026-02-26 21:45:10 UTC

Schools don’t teach you how money is created because if you understood it, you’d ask questions they’re not prepared to answer.
Ignorance isn’t accidental in a system that literally depends on it.

2026-02-25 18:44:32 UTC

My kids will be the first generation to grow up knowing what sound money feels like.
Bitcoin in self custody will allow them to never have to own a bank account.
This is what I build for.

2026-02-25 02:47:54 UTC

Is bitcoin going to become the world reserve asset?? Wdyt?

2026-02-25 02:47:49 UTC

Most people think homeschooling is about academics.
It’s not.
It’s about who forms your children’s worldview: you or the state.
So yes, my wife and I made the decision to be the primary influence in our four kids’ lives.
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2026-02-24 19:17:30 UTC

A lot of people stop going to church because they’ve had poor experiences. Here’s what I’ll say on that:

2026-02-24 00:16:59 UTC

The most countercultural thing you can do is take full responsibility for what your child believes, how they learn to think, and why.
People love to say homeschooling is “an escape” from the real world.
It’s not. It’s the decision to send a fully equipped human INTO it.
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2026-02-23 22:46:49 UTC

1971: dollar decoupled from gold
1973: Roe v. Wade. Life becomes negotiable
1980s: divorce rates peak. Family becomes optional
2008: bailouts. Accountability becomes conditional
Destroy the foundation and everything built on it follows.

2026-02-22 06:45:32 UTC

Proverbs says “the borrower is a slave to the lender.”
America built an economy where debt is mandatory: mortgages, student loans, car payments, credit cards.
Financial slavery became so normalized we call it the American Dream. A low time preference backed by sound monetary principles offers an exit.

2026-02-22 06:45:27 UTC

Canada vs USA tomorrow.
Not even a rivalry. Just Canada reminding America who taught them the sport. 😈🍁
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2026-02-22 06:45:20 UTC

Metals vs. BTC:

2026-02-22 06:45:15 UTC

Your kids will either learn to think critically at home or learn to think collectively at school.
One produces leaders, the other produces followers.
The choice is yours, the consequences are theirs.

2026-02-20 03:36:09 UTC

My thoughts on quantum:

2026-02-19 15:35:48 UTC

The American Dream required one income in 1960.
Now it requires two incomes, side hustles, and pre-generational wealth.
Listen, Americans and young people aren’t lazy. They’re just dealing with currency debasement rebranded as “economic progress.”

2026-02-18 20:35:18 UTC

Public school spent 12 years teaching you nothing about money, then sent you to a bank for a student loan at 18.
That wasn’t education, that was a pipeline!

2026-02-18 14:05:03 UTC

Husbands who lead well don’t demand respect, they earn it.
Serve your wife like Christ served the church and watch what happens.
Sacrifice builds kingdoms.
Selfishness destroys them.

2026-02-18 03:34:44 UTC

Not your keys, not your coins.

2026-02-17 22:34:33 UTC

The same people who said “my body my choice” demanded you lose your job for not taking experimental medicine.
The same people who screamed about government overreach cheered when truckers’ bank accounts were frozen without trial.
Principles aren’t principles when you abandon them the moment they’re inconvenient!
You don’t hate authoritarianism, you just want to BE the authority.
Bitcoin exists because “rules for thee but not for me” isn’t a bug in the system, it IS the system.

2026-02-17 18:04:23 UTC

Christianity without cost is Christianity without Christ.
Comfort now, regret later.
Suffering now, glory later, that’s the promise.

2026-02-16 22:03:54 UTC

Christ didn’t die so you could blend in. He died so you could be in His glory.
Comfortable faith costs nothing because it’s worth nothing.

2026-02-16 17:03:43 UTC

Public schools train children to memorize answers, not question authority. Then we’re shocked when adults can’t recognize propaganda lol.
Critical thinking starts at home.

2026-02-15 05:12:29 UTC

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I support this

2026-02-15 04:02:27 UTC

Bitcoin is a bearer asset. You should custody it.

2026-02-14 00:31:38 UTC

Epstein could not manipulate bitcoin.

2026-02-13 22:31:29 UTC

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2026-02-13 22:01:16 UTC

My wife asked what I got her for Valentine’s Day.
I said “a future not denominated in depreciating currency”
She wasn’t impressed 💔

2026-02-13 18:31:06 UTC

The institution that inflates your money wants to educate your children about economics. See the problem?

2026-02-13 16:00:57 UTC

Men who serve themselves destroy their marriages. Men who serve their wives build kingdoms.
Christ modeled it.
Scripture commands it.
Your ego dies so your family thrives.

2026-02-13 00:30:27 UTC

You don’t get efficiency with decentralization.

2026-02-12 21:00:16 UTC

Big things ahead for bitcoin. Or not??
Going live at 6pm EST with my Gen Z employee @halstonvalencia to talk about it. The donut is unrelated 🤓
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2026-02-12 19:47:40 UTC

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It was super fun! It’s a whole new game from down there

2026-02-12 19:30:06 UTC

I don’t think leadership in marriage is about control. It’s about carrying weight your wife shouldn’t have to.
Financial stress, difficult decisions, spiritual direction.
Husbands absorb pressure so their family can survive. Wives nurture the environment so their families flourish.
It’s a team effort.
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2026-02-12 17:59:56 UTC

Homeschooling your kids isn't about protecting them from the world.
It's about giving them the tools to walk into it on their own terms.
My 9 year old is learning to code because he wanted to, not because a curriculum told him to.
Curiosity beats compliance every time.

2026-02-12 16:59:49 UTC

The same system that can’t explain where money comes from wants twelve years to educate your children.
Homeschooling isn’t radical, trusting broken institutions with your kids’ minds is.

2026-02-12 15:59:26 UTC

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2026-02-12 03:59:01 UTC

All about the low time preference >>

2026-02-12 03:28:55 UTC

I homeschool because I refuse to outsource my children’s worldview to strangers with agendas.
Call it extreme.
I call it responsible parenting.

2026-02-11 22:58:38 UTC

Grocery shopping is wildly eye opening 🥩
Need. More. Sats.

2026-02-11 15:28:21 UTC

Jesus doesn’t promise comfort, He promises truth.
Following Christ means rejecting lies even when they’re profitable, convenient, or culturally accepted.
The path is narrow, and few find it.
Bitcoin’s path mirrors this: another narrow road that few discover and fewer still have the conviction to walk.
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2026-02-11 01:26:34 UTC

Homeschooling means your 9 year old can learn how to vibe code at 1pm because they’re curious, not because it’s in the curriculum.
Learning out of genuine curiosity beats learning on schedule every single time.

2026-02-11 01:26:27 UTC

I do not believe that a company that loses tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, due to their operating business, is a right fit to print stock just to buy bitcoin.

2026-02-08 07:15:30 UTC

History doesn’t always repeat, but it does rhyme.

2026-02-07 19:11:59 UTC

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Historians agree Jesus was alive, and was crucified.
Many died to uphold the fact that He rose from the grave.
Would you die for a lie that didn’t benefit you?

2026-02-07 04:49:46 UTC

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We win when His kingdom returns to earth and we are seated in His glory 👑

2026-02-07 04:27:16 UTC

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Just had to get it all out there

2026-02-07 04:24:25 UTC

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How do you rectify biblical fact and historical evidence matching up?
Or, to disprove the lie, justify the mental gymnastics of an accidental earth?

2026-02-07 01:56:56 UTC

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Can you prove there is no God?
Because my evidence points to the contrary…