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Adam O’Brien

Inspiring the next generation to reclaim freedom
Enable independence '@bitcoinwell'
Awaken sovereign individual '@getbasedtv' ⁣

Love Jesus, save in bitcoin

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2026-03-13 22:45:47 CET

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 14:39:32 CET

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 03:41:52 CET

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Lost em 🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-03-13 03:41:18 CET

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But openclaw can 😭

2026-03-13 02:33:10 CET

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 02:26:49 CET

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 01:17:39 CET

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 01:12:17 CET

His prompt skills are low key pretty good
This is 0 input from me
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2026-03-11 20:35:25 CET

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 20:29:14 CET

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 03:50:28 CET

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 17:20:01 CET

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

2026-03-10 17:19:56 CET

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 17:19:44 CET

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...

2026-03-07 18:55:38 CET

Just a matter of time before it comes back
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2026-03-07 17:25:28 CET

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 01:24:54 CET

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.

2026-03-07 00:24:46 CET

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 23:24:40 CET

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 22:24:33 CET

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 06:24:06 CET

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 01:23:41 CET

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

2026-03-06 00:53:34 CET

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

2026-03-04 22:52:43 CET

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 05:52:05 CET

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 23:51:49 CET

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 22:51:41 CET

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 22:21:35 CET

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 07:50:55 CET

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 17:50:29 CET

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 01:18:16 CET

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 01:18:10 CET

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

2026-02-27 05:45:37 CET

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 01:45:25 CET

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 22:45:10 CET

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 19:44:32 CET

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 03:47:54 CET

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

2026-02-24 01:16:59 CET

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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2026-02-22 07:45:32 CET

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 07:45:27 CET

Canada vs USA tomorrow.
Not even a rivalry. Just Canada reminding America who taught them the sport. 😈🍁
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2026-02-22 07:45:20 CET

Metals vs. BTC:

2026-02-22 07:45:15 CET

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 04:36:09 CET

My thoughts on quantum:

2026-02-18 21:35:18 CET

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 15:05:03 CET

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 04:34:44 CET

Not your keys, not your coins.

2026-02-17 23:34:33 CET

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 19:04:23 CET

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

2026-02-16 23:03:54 CET

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.

2026-02-15 05:02:27 CET

Bitcoin is a bearer asset. You should custody it.

2026-02-14 01:31:38 CET

Epstein could not manipulate bitcoin.

2026-02-13 23:31:29 CET

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2026-02-13 23:01:16 CET

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 17:00:57 CET

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 01:30:27 CET

You don’t get efficiency with decentralization.

2026-02-12 22:00:16 CET

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 20:47:40 CET

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

2026-02-12 20:30:06 CET

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 18:59:56 CET

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 16:59:26 CET

We've got a new @bitcoinwell Bitcoin (Wishing) Well theme - and better odds at winning 1,000,000 sats
Who wants some free coin tosses 💥
Drop your welltag below

2026-02-12 04:59:01 CET

All about the low time preference >>

2026-02-12 04:28:55 CET

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 23:58:38 CET

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

2026-02-11 16:28:21 CET

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 02:26:27 CET

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.

2026-02-07 20:11:59 CET

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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?

2026-02-06 06:06:47 CET

I love the nostriches 💜
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2026-02-06 00:06:11 CET

Bitcoin CEO & Gen Z React to Peak Bitcoin FUD

2026-02-05 16:15:28 CET

I don’t need my kids to be rich.
I need them to be ungovernable. I need them to know how to think, not what to think.
To question authority, not blindly submit to it.
To build wealth that can’t be confiscated, diluted, or voted away by people who don’t have their best interests at heart.
You can’t teach that in a system designed to produce compliance.
So we opted out.

2026-02-04 16:43:31 CET

The government doesn’t want you wealthy.
It wants you comfortable enough to not revolt and desperate enough to keep working.
That’s the sweet spot.
Too poor and you’re a problem. Too rich and you’re independent.
The entire system is designed to keep you in the middle: earning, spending, taxing, repeating.
Financial sovereignty isn’t about getting rich. It’s about getting free.

2026-02-01 17:58:33 CET

My 9 year old asked me yesterday why we don't send them to regular school. I told him the truth: because I don't want strangers deciding what you're allowed to think. He said 'that makes sense.' Kids get it faster than adults.

2026-01-31 08:12:56 CET

That time @88_sats waxed me in 100F weather
I am coming for you Jor.
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2026-01-31 03:51:41 CET

10/10 underrated game
My first time playing this was with my kids. And I didn't win
Not sure if that's a good or bad thing lol
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2026-01-30 02:40:19 CET

Unpopular take: monarchs have better incentive alignment than democracies.
Why?
Their legacy is their children’s inheritance.
They think in generations, not election cycles.
Our democracy has leaders who think in quarters and produce citizens who can’t think past next month.
We traded long-term vision for short-term wins.
We need structures that reward long-term thinking again.
What do you think that looks like?

2026-01-02 17:30:00 CET

Building @BitcoinWell started with a simple question: If Bitcoin is about sovereignty, why do so many companies still hold customers’ bitcoin?
Bitcoin Well was built non-custodial by design, even though it’s harder and slower. No custody. No rehypothecation. No seizure risk.
Control stays with the customer.
There are easier business models. Custody is one of them. But it recreates the fragility Bitcoin was meant to fix.
Non-custodial isn’t a feature. It’s the foundation.

2026-01-01 17:30:00 CET

Wealth is freedom over your calendar. Everything else is secondary.
The goal isn’t early retirement.
It’s being present, consistently.
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2025-12-05 17:30:00 CET

It’s simple: Broken money creates broken incentives. Broken incentives create broken families. Fixing the money isn’t just economic policy, it’s cultural repair.
Bitcoin starts the healing.

2025-12-04 03:30:00 CET

We’re living through the largest monetary debasement since WWII. But this time, there’s no productive boom on the other side, only more debt. Bitcoin is the escape hatch.

2025-12-03 02:30:00 CET

The real generational divide isn’t age. It’s mindset. Fiat mindset: “Someone else will fix it.” Bitcoin mindset: “We build it ourselves.” @‌bitcoinwell

2025-12-01 17:30:00 CET

Some people say “it’s just money.” But money shapes incentives, incentives shape culture, and culture shapes the next generation. Fix the money, fix the future.

2025-12-01 02:30:00 CET

You can’t outsource your values. Not to a school. Not to a government. And certainly not to a currency that inflates away your future. Stand firm. Raise strong kids. Save sound money.

2025-11-30 17:30:00 CET

Next-gen leaders won’t win by climbing broken institutions. They’ll win by building new ones, and Bitcoin is the perfect foundation to make that possible.

2025-11-30 03:30:00 CET

The most radical thing you can do today? Become someone your children can rely on. Stacking sats is easy. Building character is the real proof-of-work.
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2025-11-29 17:30:00 CET

The fiat system teaches you to obey. Bitcoin teaches you to think. One produces followers. The other produces leaders.

2025-11-28 17:30:00 CET

If your money loses value, your time loses meaning. Bitcoin flips this. That’s why this movement is ultimately about freedom, not finance.

2025-11-10 15:30:00 CET

Bitcoin is digital property. But if someone else holds it for you… it’s their property. Not yours.

2025-11-04 01:30:00 CET

I have 4 kids. And I believe Bitcoin will make it possible for more families to grow again.
Why? Because when money holds its value, parents can plan with confidence. When savings aren’t stolen by inflation, raising kids isn’t seen as a financial burden, it’s a blessing.
Sound money builds strong families. Strong families build strong nations.
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2025-09-13 01:30:00 CEST

Kings controlled gold.
Banks controlled paper.
No one controls Bitcoin.
The history of money is a story of centralization.
The future of freedom is decentralized.

2025-08-27 15:30:00 CEST

Fiat money breaks families.
Parents work two jobs.
Kids are raised by screens.
Stress is normalized.
Bitcoin is more than a fix for money. It’s a fix for the home.