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So You Want to Avoid Capture by the FIC...
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A meditation on what it means for a publicly listed company to engage with Bitcoin honestly while operating inside the gravitational field of fiat incentives. The episode introduces the frame of capture — the constant pull exerted by the financial industrial complex on any company subject to shareholder duty — and asks how observers can read the signs of alignment versus drift. Register is diagnostic, not predictive: a lens for watching companies over time.
Takeaways
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Capture is not an event but a gravitational field — the constant pull that shareholder duty, capital pools, and yield-chasing incentives exert on any publicly listed company touching Bitcoin.
- 02
A debt-based monetary system requires perpetual expansion of debt claims to remain solvent, which is structurally incompatible with a money whose supply cannot be expanded to service that debt.
- 03
Alignment is read through documented actions over time — products shipped, code open sourced, positions taken publicly — not through stated intentions or marketing language.
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Reframing Bitcoin as digital capital or pristine collateral is a marker of drift toward fiat games, distinct from advocating for Bitcoin as money used in transactions.
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Good work released to the commons — open source contributions, merchant payment rails, self-custody options — cannot be undone even if the originating company is later captured.