The Taboos of Bitcoin: What Almost No One Dares to Say

Introduction Talking about money has always been taboo. For centuries, the fiat system ensured that you didn’t ask too many questions: how much someone earns, how much they save, what they do with their wealth. Silence around money wasn’t accidental — it served a purpose: maintaining social order and hiding the machinery of a system built on debt and inflation. Then Bitcoin appeared. For the first time, we had transparent money with clear rules and no intermediaries. An asset that promised to break through opacity and return control to the individual. One would think that such a revolution would sweep taboos away. But it hasn’t.
Even within the Bitcoin world there are silences, gray areas, and uncomfortable issues we tend to avoid. Debates that divide us, questions we dodge, contradictions we would rather not face. As if, in the middle of a revolution for freedom, we had imported some of the same old habits from the system we seek to escape. This series was born to open those locked drawers. Because if Bitcoin truly represents the tool of freedom, it cannot afford untouchable subjects.

What does “taboo” mean in Bitcoin? The word “taboo” often evokes primitive superstitions or sacred prohibitions. But here it means something subtler: Uncomfortable questions no one dares to ask in public. Debates shut down with dogma, where mantras replace reasoning. Internal contradictions swept under the rug because they cut too deep. A taboo is not necessarily false. Often, it’s there because it confronts us with difficult realities, exposes vulnerabilities, or touches sensitive nerves. The problem is not its existence, but the silence around it. Bitcoin has shown itself to be antifragile: every external attack has made it stronger. But the real fragility may not come from outside, but from within — from what we stop thinking about, from what we censor out of fear of discomfort.

Why talk about taboos now When it was born, Bitcoin was little more than a marginal, underground experiment. Today, it is a global phenomenon: governments debate it, institutions study it, millions of people use it as a store of value and increasingly as a tool of sovereignty. That maturity changes the rules of the game. The early enthusiasm is no longer enough. Now it demands critical thinking. If within the Bitcoin community we turn certain topics into untouchables, we risk repeating the fiat system’s greatest failure: becoming a dogmatic structure, impervious to self-criticism. And that would betray Bitcoin’s very essence. Breaking taboos does not attack Bitcoin. On the contrary: it is the best way to defend it. The more capable we are of addressing uncomfortable truths, the harder it will be for the system to use them against us.

A suggestive map (without spoilers) I won’t reveal here the five taboos we will explore in this series. But I can hint at them, because in a way they are already in the air: Some relate to accessibility: is Bitcoin really for everyone, or are we still repeating a promise that isn’t always fulfilled? Others revolve around energy: the eternal accusation of its consumption, but also the internal questions about the cost of security. Some touch on the dimension of time: patience, waiting, blind faith versus conscious discipline. Others deal with risk and fear: the things we prefer not to look at too closely because they expose our vulnerability. And then there are internal dogmas: phrases we repeat as absolute truths without stopping to consider whether they can withstand time. Each taboo is a mirror. Looking into it isn’t comfortable. But discomfort is the engine of growth.

The risk of silence The fiat system thrived largely thanks to silence. While most people avoided talking about money, financial elites made and unmade the rules at will. That dynamic created generations of docile, obedient, and resigned citizens. If Bitcoiners fall into the same trap — avoiding uncomfortable topics — we risk building our own cave. One where the shadows of self-deception replace the light of truth. The danger is not in acknowledging hard questions, but in ignoring them. Because sooner or later, someone will raise them. And if we don’t have honest answers, others will fabricate them against us.

An open invitation This series does not seek to attack Bitcoin. Nor does it aim to please everyone. Its purpose is more radical: to invite you to think without fear. Breaking taboos does not weaken — it strengthens. Speaking of the uncomfortable does not destroy — it liberates. Truth, when real, withstands scrutiny. And Bitcoin, if it truly is the tool of sovereignty, does not need protection from debate: it needs to be forged in it. The easy thing would be to stay silent and repeat the same mantras. The hard thing is to open space for doubt, critique, and reflection. But that is where the future of this revolution is decided. Breaking a taboo is not a betrayal of Bitcoin. It is a reminder of why it was born. Stay close, and let’s keep exploring.