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[@TheGuySwann](/creator/twitter/TheGuySwann)
"Who wants to do a "medium of exchange" vs "store of value" Bitcoin debate And I want the best here who will bring real arguments. Not just taglines moral posturing and quotes from the whitepaper. @saylor @jack @saifedean @LynAldenContact @timevalueofbtc @adam3us @jackmallers or anyone else who wants suggest someone good for this or share it with someone they think could add a lot to the conversation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1961059954682429912) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-08-28T13:35Z 106.6K followers, 61.9K engagements


""Lightning is not. for the man or woman to run themselves because it's too complex. We're at an incubation phase for Layer Twos. Exchanges and ETFs. will continue to suck up. volume. But we have to invent self-custodial ways of doing things." -Craig Raw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1977871064110673986) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-13T22:56Z 106.6K followers, 5118 engagements


"Price is down (again). Well great time to get into some recent #bitcoin reads 👇 This weeks readings explore the boundaries of the Bitcoin ecosystem - from the early data wars that shaped the protocol to the tradeoffs of self-sovereignty to the growing wave of financial censorship worldwide. 🌍⚡ X Read_904 - The OP_Return Wars of 2014 by @BitMEXResearch Bitcoin or Ethereum: where should DApps live In Read_904 we get into the history of the OP_RETURN wars before digging into the incentives of mempool policy and filters. Are we defending sound money or just inviting smarter spam under a new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979302766880162258) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-17T21:45Z 106.6K followers, 2382 engagements


"@blank21M @csuwildcat @BitcoinMonk21 @zachherbert Appeal to the whitepaper is not the argument that you think it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979943409478479889) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T16:11Z 106.6K followers, XX engagements


"Ive had this conversation a million times now. Engineering and design have taken a nose dive. Considerations of failure modes are practically nonexistent and the shiny features are making new products utter garbage. This right behind hearing that Samsung will be placing ads on your f*kng refrigerator screen. Fiat economics has made so many products utter trash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1977399719539409183) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-12T15:43Z 106.6K followers, 7906 engagements


"Im sorry but literally how does anyone even define the point at which something is AGI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979602146363637950) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-18T17:35Z 106.6K followers, 4915 engagements


"Bitcoin dips $20k in a shock candle Now this is the Bitcoin I remember. 😆🫡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1976789518448783427) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-10T23:18Z 106.6K followers, 11.7K engagements


"Is he trolling or is he actually beginning to figure it out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979594432988233914) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-18T17:04Z 106.6K followers, 52.3K engagements


"Volatility is literally a consequence of liquidity. Full stop. If the liquidity or size of a network is changing by large amounts it will be volatile. Full stop. In other words you cannot have stable prices arbitrarily especially if a ton of people are figuring out that something is a valuable good who otherwise werent aware. A market and network that is expecting to grow by significant amounts must *necessarily* be volatile during its growth phase. Bitcoin will be volatile for a long time yet specifically because it is a great store of value and so few still understand this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979595897655971953) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-18T17:10Z 106.6K followers, 8393 engagements


"@PakoVM @bitcoin_bugle I love a good analogy 👏🏻😆"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980306448090587506) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-20T16:13Z 106.6K followers, XX engagements


"Centralization is weakness and fragility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1976036878886535660) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-08T21:27Z 106.6K followers, 68.3K engagements


"The year is 2025 The world is on the internet A user wants to connect to the internet but there are already billions of devices and the internet ran out of new IP addresses decades ago. The device can never connect because it cannot get an IP address. They have to join a global wait list for years until enough devices turn off and IP addresses are reassigned that they can get connected. The internet is broken and nobody can use it. This is equivalent to your view of Bitcoin just saying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980700738176086050) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-21T18:20Z 106.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Can we insure #Bitcoin without fiat 🤔 Rob Hamilton of Anchor Watch joins me to discuss multisig innovation Bitcoininsured infrastructure evolving custody models and the programmable future of financial risk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1978526283240780223) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-15T18:19Z 106.6K followers, 8130 engagements


"I dont really care. They arent selling a shitcoin they just make their signing device work with lots of other things people want to sign for. Why would this mean they dont care about separating money from state Example we are working on PearDrive so that everyone can use it. I suspect that shitcoiners might want to use it socialists may use it and tons of others I dont agree with. If I actually help make sure its useful for all those purposes too does that mean I dont care about P2P tech freedom and decentralization That would be a silly conclusion imo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979598158041960804) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-18T17:19Z 106.6K followers, XX engagements


"Exactly neither fiat nor gold itself scaled as a payment system for everyone in a digital world. This is why we built thousands of payment networks. Any and all payment networks built on Bitcoin have enormous opportunity and simple tools available to be 10x better than any payment system we have today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979925822371696674) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T15:01Z 106.6K followers, XXX engagements


"This has actually been the case for a while though. I spent an insane amount of time trying to get through to people asking legitimate questions in the past X cycles while trying to be seen among an avalanche of "Have Fun Staying Poor"s and the like. legit for honest questions of skeptics or people on the fence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979926390121062907) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T15:03Z 106.6K followers, 3175 engagements


"@xcsler There is no meaningful difference for this reality at XXX tps. And not everyone has to be seen in court at the exact same time or every single day for every single transaction in order to sustain property rights and freedoms. Bitcoin is a global monetary court"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979964126454485125) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T17:33Z 106.6K followers, XX engagements


"All op-return opinions aside: If everyone in a neighborhood says you can't come into my house naked and wearing a strap on in no way does that mean the person is not free to do so nor is that in any sense of the word "authoritarian." Liberty isn't everyone being forced to allow and support any potential "non-violent" action in every possible context or space. That argument is as absurd as saying that to think drugs should be legal you have to love heroin and want everyone to use it every day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979966094602313923) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T17:41Z 106.6K followers, 6485 engagements


"Ok what's the arbitrary point at which everyone can have a UTXO and move their savings whenever they need to without any trade off Let;s make the arbitrary assumption that they only need to touch their savings once a year and we want this for X billion people. That'll 250-300tps roughly or around 40-45x the current blocksize limit to be safe. Of course we might want a buffer because the idea that this would all be evenly spaced out over the XX million seconds every year is silly but lets set that aside. Now we have a blocksize of about 50MB (for easy math). That's about X TB every year. In a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979970570159571409) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T17:59Z 106.6K followers, XX engagements


"@MrHodl Literally not everything is about filters or op-return dude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980299812777218504) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-20T15:47Z 106.6K followers, XXX engagements


"@PakoVM @bitcoin_bugle Oh that sounds dope Saving this one thanks man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980306166610874873) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-20T16:12Z 106.6K followers, XX engagements


"@CoachKorey3 Get a simple and reliable hardware wallet. Generate a key write it down and put it somewhere safe. Send your bitcoin to your address. Dont put any of it online anywhere. Sleep soundly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980309563862810926) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-20T16:26Z 106.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Understanding Bitcoin mining was one of the first things that made me really grasp what an insane and brilliant system Bitcoin truly was. If you still think it's just some gamified ponzi scheme I urge you to take a few minutes and watch this 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1928617026588741967) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-05-31T00:58Z 106.6K followers, 255.5K engagements


"Nothing is ever going to replace Bitcoin because its "faster" and "can do more transactions." If you are grasping onto some shitcoin because its promising to replace Bitcoin because of that get out they don't even know what they are competing with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979925116050919556) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T14:58Z 106.6K followers, 7761 engagements


"Throwing everything into one bucket called "software" shows a gross misunderstanding of the spectrum here. A *consensus protocol* and an app are both software but the conditions and need for each to change couldn't be further away from each other. Tell me the last time you updated your TCP/IP because "it is software and it has to evolve" in order to make your internet better and you'll begin to understand how badly this idea misses the mark"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1979965186090873032) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T17:37Z 106.6K followers, 17.7K engagements


"If this idea made any sense at all in this context then government would always shrink back to the level that was most beneficial to the market rather than destroy it. Yet it doesn't because the ability to alter **the rules** or the conditions that affect the rules suffers a self perpetuating tragedy of the commons problem. Where costs are collective and benefits are individual. You can't just hand wave away reality by quoting a few vague ideas from Hayek. There's actually quite a bit in Hayek's Fatal Conceit if understood properly that helps explain why "leaving it up to the market" makes no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980028561239978322) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T21:49Z 106.6K followers, XX engagements


"The rules and what defends them are exactly what does NOT need to evolve the changes that can and do occur in Bitcoin are in an *extremely* limited scope. XXXX% of it never changes on purpose. And in fact *cannot* change without breaking the very thing that it is. I get what you are saying but the concept even in the context you present is still XXXX% true in the direction I was illustrating and only exists a tiny fraction where exceptions lie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980030575336386988) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T21:57Z 106.6K followers, XXX engagements


"One can easily predict in 2045 the US debt at $150-200T conservatively. Bitcoin at $400T then if it remains sound money is not unrealistic actually ($70-100T in today's USD). XX% of that change would be a profound growth of the asset & network the rest is USD decline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980033578835849708) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-19T22:09Z 106.6K followers, 4371 engagements


"@bitcoin_bugle Im on it 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980304537044107627) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-20T16:06Z 106.6K followers, XXX engagements


"@bitcoin_bugle The Pleb Slop Standard By Dick Greaser Chapter X Have an Opinion First Then Find Out Why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980305071545217241) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-20T16:08Z 106.6K followers, XXX engagements


"👇👇👇 The number of people on both sides of this who have lost their grip on reality is exhausting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980703363978199260) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-21T18:30Z 106.6K followers, 4938 engagements


"It's 2025 I zap a post on @primal_app and Nostr over lightning while reading an article about Ark. I still am baffled how people still have such a silly image of the future and how Bitcoin. or really protocols in general actually work. I continue to use Bitcoin every single day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheGuySwann/status/1980702777908293936) [@TheGuySwann](/creator/x/TheGuySwann) 2025-10-21T18:28Z 106.6K followers, 8037 engagements