Walt Lyman

Like Your Fingers?

A journey from fast-food chaos to the Steelworker's contract.

May 5 • Walt Lyman

February 2026

The Time We Are Losing: How Fiat Money Shallows the Future

Why the Age of Leaders Matters Less Than the Money They Control

Feb 18 • Walt Lyman

The Great Unbundling: How Stablecoins Are Reshaping the Banking System

The future isn't just digital—it's bearer. And stablecoins are the transitional scaffold for a new monetary order.

Feb 17 • Walt Lyman

The Efficiency Trap: Why Commodities Always Fail as Money

And How Bitcoin Escapes the Laws of Industrial Scarcity

Feb 11 • Walt Lyman

​The Monetary Architecture of the Border Crisis

How decentralized money can end the cycle of displacement and state-sponsored surveillance.

Feb 10 • Walt Lyman

January 2026

The Peasant God and Digital Subsistence: Internalizing Labor in the Age of Fiat

How the YouTube Paradox Democratizes Mediocrity

Jan 21 • Walt Lyman

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Quantum Quandaries: What AI’s Energy Crunch Teaches Us About Bitcoin

The Battle for Watts and Logic

Jan 20 • Walt Lyman

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The Collapse of the Future: A Monetary Theory of Structural Violence

How fiat money, broken time horizons, and sound money connect to the mental crisis we are living through

Jan 14 • Walt Lyman

The Sound Money Cure: How Bitcoin Could Render the DSM Obsolete

The fiat system doesn’t just devalue our currency; it devalues our sanity by enforcing a high-time-preference existence

Jan 13 • Walt Lyman

The Caracas Reckoning: Geopolitics via Physics

How Bitcoin miners can do the heavy lifting of rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure

Jan 7 • Walt Lyman

The Caracas Reckoning: Oil, Bitcoin, and the Test of the America First Doctrine

How Bitcoin could stabilize the Trump Legacy in Venezuela

Jan 6 • Walt Lyman

December 2025