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

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Published: 2026-05-17T12:00:28+00:00
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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 — 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 — Martin Luther's 95 Theses and Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper — 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: 🚀 Buy Bitcoin/Freedom: https://bitcoinwell.com 📧 Join the Mission (Newsletter): https://bitcoinwell.com/newsletter 📊 Take the Bitcoin Survey: https://bitcoinwell.com/survey 📈 Investor Relations: https://bitcoinwell.com/investors CONNECT WITH US: 🕊️ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwell 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebitcoinwell ⚡ Nostr: npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 ( https://bitcoinwell.com/nostr )

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