4 Things Hip Hop & Bitcoin Have In Common

Bitcoin, like Hip Hop was an encrypted language very much like the hidden messages during the times of Harriet Tubman in the under-ground railroad where they utilized messages in song. Hip Hop was a language of let’s wake up, shake something up, be it with pulsing in Yo face lyrics, or with Pop, Lock, or drop it, break dancing. The caged bird that Maya Angelou spoke about, was no longer content with just song, it had to start rattling the cage a bit. Because for so many they had somehow forgotten they were still in a cage. This new message was to serve as a reminder to those who became complacent. The music would once more shed light to the socio-economic inequalities of that Pre-Regan era, just a few years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in 1968. Bitcoin too! Is rattling the cages of the centralized banking system. Bitcoin too! Is shedding light on the inequalities and injustices created by the banking system. Just like Hip Hop, Bitcoin is a wild, untamed instrument. A voice for the masses. Bitcoin and Hip Hop speak the same language, that language is Freedom.

Secondly, Bitcoin like Hip Hop, started at the grassroots level. The idea of a decentralized currency that was borderless, accessible to all, finite, and retained an agreed upon value had been fomenting for a while around the globe since the late 90’s. It wasn’t until November 2009 that the infamous white paper from Satoshi Nakamoto was shared amongst this techie peer to peer community. This became the rave within this Bit-torrent sharing world, and a groundswell slowly began touching every corner of the world. In this same fashion Hip Hop made it’s way from a small section of the South Bronx New York in 1973, to every home, in every continent on the planet.

Third, Bitcoin like Hip Hop, had naysayers, and those who were diametrically opposed to it’s proliferation. These naysayers casted their gloom iterating the same pessimism; “It’s a fad”, and, “It will not last”. Little did Bitcoin’s and Hip Hop’s enemies know, that both were not just here to stay, but they are UNSTOPPABLE. For the first 10 to 15 years since Hip Hop was born the naysayers persisted that it would not last, and yet here we are 44 years later. Hip Hop is more prevalent worldwide than what could have ever been imagined even 30 years ago. So I ask you, “what will be of Bitcoin, and the Crypto-currencies”? Bitcoin continues, to achieve what the naysayers say it will not achieve. Today, as i write this post on November 27, 2017 Bitcoin reached an all time high of $9,704.

Lastly, Bitcoin Like Hip Hop does not have an owner. Hip Hop is not a company. Bitcoin and the Block-Chain is not a company. No one owns Bitcoin, No one owns Hip Hop. They exist independently of any centralized entity or power. They exist because we the people exist, because there was a yearning within our collective consciousness to grow these entities into existence. Basically, because we want them to exist.

These are the common threads, and main characteristics that i see are shared by both Bitcoin and Hip Hop. I would love to hear any other things that i may have missed. What other aspects do you see that they share. For me they are two things that i happen to be passionate about.