Pull quotes — AfterFiat
Refreshed for essay v1.3 (the standalone front door). Sources: essay-content-v1.3.tex and thesis v3.1.
House style: one sentence, quotable cold, no hedging inside the quote.
Integrity rule: every quote below is verbatim from the published text, including the em-dashes and italic markers. Splices are marked. Nothing is prefixed or paraphrased.

FROM THE ESSAY (lead set)

1. "Gold works when the network does not. Bitcoin works when the state does not."

2. "Nothing is abolished; everything is scheduled."

3. "Money is usually discussed as an asset class. This essay discusses it as a sovereign capacity."

4. "A state that must finance itself will finance itself, and the soft guarantees are where the room is."

5. "When checking costs the same as producing, you have a priesthood with extra steps."

6. "The question is never "can you check it?" but "what does checking cost, and who pays?"—and that is a number, not a vibe."

7. "The wedge is the difference between useful and monetary, and it is published quarterly or it is nothing."

8. "These are not forecasts. They are trip wires. A trip wire does not tell you when the intruder arrives; it tells you, forever after, whether you were watching."

9. "A thesis that cannot be killed is a press release."

10. "The asset becomes a quoted reference with no native loop—held, hedged, and never used."

11. "Where you are is a reading, not a stance."

12. "The instruments are the thesis. Everything else is commentary."

FROM THE THESIS RECORD (retain from prior set, still accurate at v3.1)

13. "Every monetary epoch begins with an argument about what is real."

14. "The competitor to an open verifiable stack is accordingly not fiat but a competent closed sovereign stack—state-integrated energy, industry, compute, payments, and identity—which may win on cost, uptime, and build speed while inverting who ends up sovereign."

15. "Gross capacity is not deliverable service. Gross native demand is not a monetary anchor." [splice: P4 and the front-matter concessions — verbatim in each]

16. "Proofs audit the credit. They do not become the bond."

17. "A system with no telemetry is untrustworthy. A system with one vendor's telemetry is fragile. A system with multi-source, reproducible telemetry has a shot at being money."

Usage notes:
- Quotes 8, 9, and 12 are the quotability targets from the PRD (W4.3): sentences a stranger could quote cold.
- Quote 15 is a marked splice of two thesis premises (P4 and the front-matter concessions); both halves are verbatim in their sources.
- Quote 1 is the essay's opening (two sentences; use both or neither). Quote 2 is the one-line statement of the unspanned state — administrative repression under intact infrastructure — and should be attributed to that framing, not to a forecast.
- Quote 4 requires the "arithmetic, not conspiracy" context if quoted in political coverage; the essay's surrounding paragraph names the gold-ownership criminalization and the WWI convertibility suspensions as its documented instances.
- Quote 8 uses "forecasts," matching the published essay. Do not substitute "predictions" — verbatim is the rule.
- Quote 17 is from the operator checklist extraction (§25), not the essay.