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Reads: The Great Decoupling: Luther, Satoshi, and the New Reformation of Money

11 min ยท 17. maj 2026
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Bitcoin Well Reads: The Great Decoupling: From the Reformation of Heaven to the Reformation of Money The most powerful institutions in history all share one trait โ€” they make themselves indispensable. The medieval Church taught that you needed a priest to reach God. The modern central bank teaches that you need a custodian to store value. Both monopolies look natural until somebody opens the door. In this episode, we read Konrad Fitzpatrick's piece The Great Decoupling: From the Reformation of Heaven to the Reformation of Money. Konrad draws a clean line between two technical documents written five centuries apart โ€” Martin Luther's 95 Theses and Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper โ€” and lays out the structural rhyme between them. Both were calls to fire the middleman. Both were marketed through a new printing technology. Both produced an explosion of human sovereignty that the old institutions never recovered from. SELFCUSTODY #FINANCIALSOVEREIGNTY #BITCOINPODCAST #BITCOINREFORMATION #SOUNDMONEY RESOURCES & LINKS: ๐Ÿš€ Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com [https://bitcoinwell.com] ๐Ÿ“ง Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter [https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter] ๐Ÿ“Š Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey [https://bitcoinwell.com/survey] ๐Ÿ“ˆ Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors [https://bitcoinwell.com/investors] CONNECT WITH US: ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell [https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell] ๐Ÿ“ธ Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell [https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell] โšก Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 (https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr [https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr])

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