Intro
Who created Bitcoin? That’s a secret I imagine only a select few know the answer to. But we do know some things about its creation, like "why". Bitcoin’s genesis block contained a very specific reference to the impending global financial collapse of 2008. Bitcoin was born out of a crisis that exposed our world to the harsh reality that the fiat monetary system cannot sustain itself forever. But, powers that be knew that prior to 2008. In fact, some might say that the concept of a global “digital” currency was crafted around the same time that DARPA introduced the world to “the internet” back in 1983. Of course, the concept would be simply that at the time: a concept. But the idea was there. Take a look at the infamous cover of The Economist in 1988:
The cover explains why the image is so vague as to not portray the actual Bitcoin logo, but rather a mock-up drawing of a coin with the year 2018 stamped on it. Other imagery lends itself to questioning. Like, why is the pile of burning paper currencies being topped by an eagle with a seemingly random flue-de-lis on its head? The cover alone screams subliminal messaging. Which, is nothing new for The Economist. But now that 2018 is upon us, and the Bitcoin surge is well underway, this magazine cover isn’t quite so cryptic as it was in 1988.
Any true intelligence analyst or LE detective will tell you, if you want to uncover who is “running the show” all you need to do is “follow the money.” So, in terms of Bitcoin, let’s follow the money, shall we?
Follow The Money
Much of the Bitcoin’s protocol development (and funding) is being done under the direction of the blockchain company called Blockstream (HQ in the US). The company focuses on developing Bitcoin applications and is primarily funded through private investors. Blockstream is also partly owned by the French multinational insurance firm AXA Strategic Ventures.
AXA is run by a man named Henri de Castries, who has also been the chairman of the Bilderberg group since 2012.
Suddenly that image of an Eagle with a fleur-de-lis on its head, standing on a pile of flaming fiat currency and touting a coin with the year 2018 on it makes more sense now, huh?
I suppose it’s important to note that The Economist is the magazine darling of the Rothschilds, and only serves to prove the following point:
Blockchain (and subsequently Bitcoin) was designed for a very specific reason and has been planned as a fiat replacement for quite some time. (Sorry, Mr. Banker)
Bitcoin is going to revolutionize the way the world conducts finance and will usher in that “New World Order” people have been spouting on about for years. The cryptocurrency revolution has already been planned and is moving along according to the roadmap the Bilderberg Group laid out decades ago. This is their revolution, and the rest of us are just along for the ride. To bet against it would be an incredible mistake. To bet on it (through buying Bitcoin) will prove profitable.
Of course, any time you mention the Bilderberg Group you’re bound to hear all sorts of conspiracy theories about the “political elite” and their attempts to concentrate control and restrict freedom from the individuals. I even read a theory that the BG bought control of Bitcoin in an effort to suppress its rise to power and implode it from the inside out. Which is an incredibly lackluster theory not based in common logic. Why would they funnel millions upon millions into developing a protocol only to try and burn it all down? For what gain? To continue our global dependence on fiat - a monetary system plagued with vulnerabilities? I don’t believe so. I believe they have been planning the transition to this “new world order, distributed digital currency” since the inception of the internet.
The Revolution
People who criticize Bitcoin are failing to see the bigger picture and are unknowingly denying the most revolutionary transfer of power in modern history. The shift is moving money out of the hands of corrupt private banking, and into the hands of the people and their governments. Because in the fiat system, that’s all banks are for - to serve as a middleman between a government and its citizens. The banks are the one who facilitates the managing (to include holding and lending) of our relative fiat currencies. They are also the ones who mismanage it and indulge in things like: terrorist funding, money laundering, over-leveraging their own growth, etc etc, all for their own personal gain. The middlemen. The banks. Who bails them out every time they grow “too big to fail”? Governments do. Which translates to the individual citizens. We are ultimately the ones who suffer from the hands of these corrupt organizations and we are the one who burdens that cost. Organizations like Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Barclays, USB, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, etc.
They have cost the individual citizen trillions of dollars over the decades in the forms of bailouts and other losses due to fraud and illicit activities.
It is in the best interest of world government leaders and their citizens that Bitcoin succeeds and dethrones the private banking system. We will all be better off for it. And to profit from it, all the political leaders need to do is invest in the technology early on. Which they no doubt have. The estimated 980,000 Bitcoins held by “Satoshi Nakamoto” could very easily be sitting in a joint wallet/account managed by the Bilderberg Group. They don’t have to swindle the individuals with money-making schemes and fraudulent activities to remain “in power”. They already have a significant control of the new money supply.
This is the New World Order, and banks are pissed. Many of them have likely been kept in the dark and have no clue what is in store for them. They will kick and scream and fight all the way down the road that ultimately leads to their removal. And the people will rejoice and welcome this new transfer of power with open arms. Ironic, isn’t it? For so many years the threat of some unknown NWO scared the likes of Alex Jones and other conspiracy theorists, only for it to turn out to be one of the most freeing and empowering movements of our time.
The only thing governments will require is a way to effectively tax digital currency to keep funding flowing. That’s all they need. And the blockchain allows for the immutable funds transfer directly from the citizen to their government. No banks required.
This piece (and its implementation) are yet to be seen/developed. But make no mistake, they likely already have the system/design in place and have droves of well-paid developers building the solutions as we speak.
So, what’s next then? If all this is true.
Outlook
This next part is pure speculation and is subject to change. My guess is that over the next year or so the state of the global fiat economy will come under pressure from several factors, including rising inflation, impossible debt burdens, and liquidity crunches. I’m unsure how fast that will unfurl (the global crisis in 2008 took a year or so to pick up speed before a full-blown collapse was imminent). But we’ve already seen some of the first signs of this taking place: (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/hna-is-said-to-face-2-4-billion-liquidity-crunch-this-quarter) and the current market selloff occurring (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-02/bill-blain-clients-are-increasingly-worried-recession-will-begin-year).
Meanwhile, development for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will continue. New products and services will be introduced and built on top of Bitcoin (think TCP/IP stack). The prices will fluctuate between now and then (yet ultimately have no long-term effect on the development), but when push comes to shove, and the global fiat economy has nowhere else to go but into a global crisis (again), THEN we will see large nation states like the US, UK, and other allies, speak up about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
I imagine throughout the next year(s) we will see more and more “fiat” on-ramps allowing for people to easily transfer their fiat out of banks and into crypto (think Robinhood, Coinbase, Ethos, etc).
Once enough of the world’s population (in the developed world at least) has easy access to crypto.... there will be a concerted effort to move over to a new “digital” monetary system.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the mainstream media drums up some catchy marketing phrase like “currency war” - forcing people to rally behind a certain coin vs others. Imagine, for a moment, how that would look like here in America?
Avg. non-technical citizen: “Oh, the US backs Bitcoin? Hell yeah, me too! ‘Murica!”
Suddenly, a decentralized, blockchain-based cryptocurrency is “backed” by a government. Which is the faith that underpins the USD at current. Because it certainly isn’t backed by anything else. All those who said a digital currency would never be “backed” by a government with a standing military will be awkwardly wrong.
Of course, I could also go into things that support the idea that the fiat system collapse is also by design, but hopefully people can see those signs themselves when they consider this world currency theory and then look back at the previous administration’s fiscal policies. Ungodly amounts of money printing, running interest rates at near zero for almost an entire decade, the pumping of the markets and allowing them to grow to unprecedented highs (knowing good and well that many are significantly overvalued). When you consider the state of the private markets worldwide in conjunction with the fiscal policies set by individual governments - it’s a clear recipe for disaster. A disaster by design, perhaps?
Add to that the global reserve currency declining in value, the world economy will have no choice but to move away from the dollar. And when the dollar catches a cold, the world sneezes. Ironic that Trump called China a currency manipulator because it would appear that we aren’t so innocent in that regard ourselves.
Time will certainly tell how everything will unfold, but regardless of what occurs in the interim, my bets are on Bitcoin sticking around for a very, very long time.
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