I believe in you. I believe in all of you. I too used to lie awake at night trying to figure out how I could fix the world. How could I make it better? What could I ever do to help others? That’s why so many of you are lost. So many of you are fearful. I’m here to tell you, I understand.
This goes back to when I was young. The world was different. I still remember Live Aid, a concert bringing together performers from around the world to end global hunger. Ads on television stated that “for the price of a cup of coffee, you can save a child’s life.”
Then came “We Are the World,” a song by Michael Jackson that was also meant to solve hunger in Africa. If only people understood then why these people were hungry. If only people understood today.
I bought into every narrative as a young adult. If you don’t dive in the pool, how will you ever know if the water is safe? Eventually, the fads trying to feed the hungry ended as people realized that the non-profits had massive administrative overhead.
We also realized that the food was often hijacked by African warlords. Most importantly, we were never taught about French apartheid. Maybe because that would open the doorway to how we exploit the world.
My next experience, looking through a lens to see the world, was my Global Studies class in high school.
I wasn’t a great student; in fact, I was barely a student. This was an advanced class that I begged my way into, and my grades were very deserving of a barely student.
I remember studying for an entire weekend, from dawn to dusk, knowing that I needed a 100% on my exam to pass the semester. But my classroom time was never squandered as I engaged in high-level conversation with my teacher.
He wrote the curriculum. We spent 1-2 months on each subject, some being global warming, which highlighted deforestation in South America and included economic incentives that drove these efforts, religions, global terrorism, etc.
It was very focused on the day, and while my grades displayed a child who never did a bit of homework, I probably got more out of that class than most of his other students.
So even before graduation, I chose to help the world by enlisting in the US Military. I thought that I could contribute to the world by protecting others through honorable service, something I later realized wasn’t what it was cracked up to be.
Since then, I’ve spent countless hours trying to find ways to solve the world’s problems. Famine, entire nations living in poverty in our modern world, war—these things I saw as independent issues.
Later in life, a friend pointed me to a series on YouTube called “The Hidden Secrets of Money.” I digested the series over the course of a week. Then came “Century of Enslavement,” another show on YouTube.
This is when I began to understand that these issues are not, in fact, divorced from one another; they are all individual legs supporting one body.
Another friend who lives in the IT world helped me understand the basics of digital currencies. There was little information online at the time, the year being 2014, so I thought to myself, how can digital currencies fix the world?
I’d already identified the world’s problems, and this was the solution, so I began drafting a template for my very own “cryptocurrency” to fix the world.
While it never moved past a database where people could transact over a website on a centralized ledger — never actually being a “cryptocurrency” — this social experiment laid the groundwork for my next journey.
In my experiment, I had two competing currencies, one inflationary and one non-inflationary, to solve for velocity. This taught me that while people will spend the inflationary currency faster, they will pay more and more of it to exchange for the non-inflationary currency.
It also helped me understand the money printer and how people from all over the world try to get close to it. This explains mass migration.
It showed me how special interest groups exploit people, pushing narratives that encourage governments to fund unnecessary programs, wage wars, and move freshly printed money from the government’s hands into the hands of their friends and families.
Then began my journey exclusively into Bitcoin. I realized that we already had the solution. Bitcoin solved all of these problems.
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Then along came COVID. What a journey that was for us all. If you didn’t understand the incentives that drive the world, then you may have been caught off guard.
But if you did, if you understood the money printer, then you had a pretty good idea of what was going on behind the narrative.
But what I learned from COVID was inflation. While I already had a grasp on inflation from my social experiment, out-of-control money printing made it obvious what was going on.
It was simply a wealth transfer from the poor and middle class to the rich. Whether intentional or not, that’s what happened.
I then realized that the parasitic system, through the Federal Reserve, didn’t only find a way to take everything that someone has, but they even devised a system that can confiscate all the wealth from someone who has nothing.
How do you do that, you may ask? You make it more expensive to buy their next meal.
Other things that I have learned on my journey: If a nation is lacking energy and it wants to provide its citizens with jobs, it must compete for the US dollar to purchase oil, as the US dollar, or PetroDollar, is necessary for this trade.
This means that every nation competes to produce the cheapest goods, encouraging child labor, just so they can have energy to heat or cool their homes.
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I have also learned that when a nation needs assistance from the US, through the IMF and World Bank, we are more than happy to give loans. This money is often squandered as leaders flee these nations with freshly printed US dollars, leaving their countrymen in debt.
The IMF and World Bank are more than happy to roll this debt into a new loan with a higher interest rate, tie some conditions to the loan that often make their nation dependent on other nations for food, then suck the energy out of its people.
France does the same thing to African nations. They print the currencies for at least 10 countries.
When France needs money, they have literally been known to double the money supply for a nation overnight. This effectively steals half of the value from everyone in that nation in one night.
So next time someone wants to tie a racist theme to why Africa is impoverished and how the people there can’t even get running water or electricity, look to France and their exploitation of millions of people to prop themselves up on the world stage.
Here is another interesting fact that I learned on my journey. The PetroDollar gave the US the ability to print money to infinity as long as we export that money by buying products.
We are the only country with the ability to export our inflation. As we can print to infinity, we are able to create a massive Military Industrial Complex to maintain our grip on the world.
In order to fund these wars, we simply print more money. As the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, other nations hold the US dollar in reserve.
So, let’s say the US does something horrible to your nation and your people choose to fight back, and the US increases the money supply by 5%. This means that every nation is now being taxed 5% to fund the war against you, whether they are your ally or not.
If your nation holds $1 billion in US dollars, you are effectively funding the war against yourself to the tune of $50 million.
While I believe all of you protesters are genuine in your stances, I hope you come to understand money as I have. I hope you come to understand it and understand Bitcoin and how it fixes these problems and more.
The exploitation that other nations endure from our government may be amplified from what we experience, but have you tried to buy a new home lately? Do you feel the pain when you go to the store?
If you do, and you are protesting some anti-(insert cause) movement in the US, maybe your efforts would be better spent by putting an end to French apartheid in Africa, which impoverishes millions of Africans. Understand that as they transact in bitcoin, they can escape this theft.
Are you against the US sacrificing the lives of our soldiers and innocents in other nations? If so, understand Bitcoin and how without a money printer to print endlessly, the USA can’t use the money printer to prop up weapons manufacturers and pump the stocks of our politicians.
Are you pro or anti-immigration? I don’t think anyone wants to see people displaced, but why are they displaced? It is because they need to flee nations where people are exploited and have no access to the global financial system in order to survive.
Bitcoin gives them that access in their community, in their home, without being forced out of their country.
If you want to protest something, maybe you should focus your efforts on bringing our entire planet into the modern age with clean running water, electricity, and all but eliminating war and exploitation.
Take the journey. Spend a little bit of your time understanding the solution as I have. As many others in the Bitcoin community have. Stop living in a debt-based world that promotes exploitation and poverty, and start living in a peaceful, modern world of global equality.
The choice is yours. Choose your mission wisely. Choose your picket sign. Decide whether you want to be exploited by special interests or choose to fix the world. I’ve chosen my mission. I hope to see you join me.
