For it must be hammered home, engraved in digital stone: Bitcoin was not designed to make you rich, but to make you free. And to confuse the two is to pave the way for your servitude.

This empty mempool is the weak pulse of the revolution. It measures the growing centralization of asset control. It tells us that the sovereign user base is eroding in favor of passive speculators who, without knowing it, are weakening the network's fundamental value proposition and making it more vulnerable to state and regulatory pressures.