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2026-04-23T22:31:17Z

“This piece is my attempt to finally map the terrain I'd been circling for years: Bitcoin's hardness, its fragility, its human governance, and its uneasy relationship with a world that increasingly runs on elastic money and digital abundance. It's not a defense. It's not an indictment. It's an audit.” ~ Hugh Hendry

We keep pretending the modern monetary system is stable and trustworthy. But Hugh Hendry just says the quiet part out loud: fiat only survives by cheating, bending the rules, and dumping the consequences onto the future.

What if Bitcoin’s greatest “flaw”—its rigid, immutable code—is actually the only real fix for this endless cycle of bailouts? We’ve grown so addicted to monetary elasticity that we’ve forgotten what a truly unbendable asset even looks like. Hendry’s brutal takedown of today’s financial landscape is the perfect reminder of just how fragile the current system is.

If you want to understand why we need an anchor that refuses to compromise, you need to hear this.

Article: Modern Money Only Works By Cheating by Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/modern-money-only-works-cheating-if-youre-long-bitcoin-or-not-long-bitcoin-read

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