AbstractEquilibrium on Nostr: I've been thinking for some time that when US debt goes over a quadrillion, that will ...

I've been thinking for some time that when US debt goes over a quadrillion, that will be the mass-psychological breaking point of the deficit (if it gets that far).

Folks understand the word "trillion" but many have no idea what a thousand trillion is, even if they've heard the word "quadrillion" before.

But you know something?...People **really** know the word "million". It's closer to them in many other ways. People also know the number "21" as a lucky number.

Why take a simple, elegant thing like "21 Million" and bastardize it? Because people can't count things well? We can do better.

#21million

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Imagine telling a Bitcoin noob:
“Hey, the base idea of Bitcoin is that there will never be more than 21 quadrillion bitcoins.”

They’d look at you like—what the hell are you talking about?

Now tell them the truth:
“There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin.”

That line hits. It lands. It matters.

If you don’t understand the difference, then I honestly don’t think you understand Bitcoin, or the memetic power that drives everything we’re building in cyberspace.

This push to rebrand sats, flip decimals, and create 21 quadrillion coins is pure madness. It’s detached from reality. It’s a bizarre attempt to reshape something that’s already stood the test of 15 years.

Yes, we can improve Bitcoin. Make it more robust, more decentralized, more resistant. But start there. Start by encouraging people to run full nodes. Educate them about consensus—what it is, who holds it, why it matters.

Stop wasting energy on campaigns that solve no real problem and only risk breaking the culture that got us here.

This isn’t progress. It’s vandalism.

And it blows my mind.