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MMM Global on bitcoin: a mutual-aid label on a zero-sum pyramid

Researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of MMM-linked bitcoin transactions. The “help” buttons were still a pyramid.

Official bitcoin-reserve talk and family-linked tokens can sit in the same news week — they are not the same thing as a stranger’s deposit link.

Bookkeeping fair-value rules and cash-tax bills are different clocks — both get mis-sold in pitches.

A House-passed market-structure bill is not a licence sticker for every Telegram desk that types “CLARITY approved”.

Every 210,000 blocks the miner subsidy halves — a supply rule, not a guaranteed moon ticket.

A day-old swap domain in a “how to cash out” video is not an exchange — it is a funnel.

The IRS treats convertible crypto as property — paper gains are not a bill until you dispose of it.

After the 2024 subsidy cut, the network issues on the order of 13,500 BTC in a 30-day stretch — not a private dashboard’s “hashrate”.

Jack Dorsey’s company bought bitcoin for the treasury and also builds Cash App rails, open-source teams and hardware around it.

“Let them do” is a policy slogan, not a warranty that the other party will behave.

A listed analytics firm that treats bitcoin like a core reserve asset — loud, leveraged, and easy for copycats to name-drop.

“Voluntary exchange” sounds clean until the other party lied about the product.