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BITCOIN IS DOWN, BUT ITS CASE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE COMPELLING

The true cause of bitcoin's recent pullback and how the Davos globalist agenda
plays a role.
 * Author:
   Andrea Bianconi
 * Publish date:
   Jul 15, 2022



The true cause of bitcoin's recent pullback and how the Davos globalist agenda
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This is an opinion editorial by Andrea Bianconi, a research assistant at the
Idaho Freedom Foundation, which is a public policy think tank.

An analysis of the fundamentals, recent geopolitical and macroeconomic events
and their impact on Bitcoin’s future.


INTRODUCTION

In the last few months, financial markets have lost over 30% from their highs as
the Federal Reserve Board took away the punchbowl from the intoxicated market
players by hiking interest rates, and now recession (stagflation) seemingly
looms.



The yen and the euro are inflating like developing countries’ currencies.

Inflation and commodities explode higher.

The spark for WWIII has been lit in Ukraine — unbeknownst to the ignorant and
brainwashed masses who think that this is just a local conflict and that “peace”
can be reached in spite of Western nations selling unlimited quantities of
weapons into the war and pouring billions of "freshly printed" U.S. dollars and
euro debt into the conflict, adding fuel to the fire.

Then we have the suicidal sanctions, which are destroying the economies of the
Western sanctioning countries rather than the sanctioned Russia.



After all, it is clear to anyone with a functioning brain that 10 years of
sanctions have made Russia totally decoupled and immune from Western economical
warfare.





And finally, the icing on the cake, bitcoin has died for the 459th time in its
short 12-year history.


FINANCIALIZATION IS THE PROBLEM

As I have expected and warned about in this February 2021 article, the growing
financialization of the industry could become an existential threat for Bitcoin.
Wall Street has brought its usual playbook — excessive debt and leverage — to
their darling DeFi cryptocurrency sector drawing a crowd of suckers and
shitcoiners who were allowed to leverage their bitcoin equity 100x or more to
speculate on altcoins like LUNA. The leveraging and deleveraging process is well
described in this ZeroHedge article here. All this is good until, sooner or
later, reality hits. Shitcoins are invariably revealed for what they ultimately
are, usually scams, and the only real asset posted as collateral (bitcoin) is
then sold to cover the losses. Then the deleveraging causes a cascading
liquidation of collateralized bitcoins. The suckers are wiped out and the smart
money buys back the bitcoin on the cheap.

While one of the biggest purposes of Bitcoin is to “be your own bank,” DeFi
rather aims at recreating the fiat fractional banking system with all its risks
and hazards. This Bitcoin Magazine article correctly points out: “Crypto lending
shops such as Celsius are fractional reserve banks in principle; however this
time there is no ‘lender of last resort’ in the form of a central bank to bail
out the founders and their clients when things turn sour.”








“Let’s make one thing clear: a yield always has to come from somewhere. To
generate a positive yield on a scarce asset such as bitcoin, the institution
offering said yield has to leverage the clients’ deposits in various ways. And
whereas banks face strong regulatory requirements as to what they can do with
the customer deposits (such as buy treasuries, facilitate mortgage loans etc.),
cryptocurrency lending companies face no such regulatory requirements, so they
basically go and put their customers’ deposits into casinos of various kinds —
DeFi yield farming, staking, speculating on obscure altcoins."

While this wash-and-rinse cycle is nothing new for seasoned Bitcoiners — and one
can reasonably argue that it is needed to clean up the market from excesses — I
feel that there is one new, worrying and more obscure side to it this time.


BITCOIN IN DAVOS CROSSHAIRS AND WHAT EVERYONE’S MISSING

As I wrote in this series of articles Part 1 here and Part 2 here, Bitcoin
represents the “wrench thrown in the engine” of the globalist agenda: global
money, global government and consequent global enslavement. As there is no
practical way to stop Bitcoin adoption (since it is a fully decentralized,
immutable, uncensorable peer-to-peer settlement asset and parallel payment
system with cash-like finality), the only way is to try to demonize it. This is
done using the usual FUD and mainstream media scare tactic campaigns and —
arguably more effectively — by causing its price to drop substantially thanks to
smartly engineered attacks on highly leveraged shitcoins where bitcoin is used
as collateral.






The Terra/LUNA collapse is an example. We do not know for sure whose fiat fake
money was behind the attack. Both Blackrock and Citadel — among the most
influential Davos players in advancing the globalist agenda – were rumored to
have played a key role in the attack, however they officially denied
involvement. The thought remains, though, in order to borrow 100,000 bitcoin
worth approximately $3 billion to pull off the attack you must be a big player —
or at least have someone with big pockets to back you up. It will be almost
impossible to learn where the money came from.

Until the current fiat-based system — which grants to the few close enough to
the spigots of “fake” money the “great privilege” to fight wars, colonize and
enslave others at no cost — collapses, then the massive amount of fiat-based
debt created ex nihilo will be always used by the privileged few to expropriate
real assets like gold or bitcoin. This is the main reason why one should keep
direct custody of his/her bitcoin and not play the corrupted fiat game with DeFi
and shitcoins.


BITCOINERS SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM ALTCOINS AND DEFI

Alternative cryptocurrencies and DeFi in the end are nothing but the latest
casino playground for Wall Street. The problems are well-known: excessive
leverage, derivatives, derivatives of derivatives in an endless chain of
liabilities, contagion and spiraling insolvencies when things turn sour. There’s
one big difference though: in cryptocurrency and DeFi there is no Fed to bail
risk-takers out. Unfortunately bitcoin is the only solid cryptocurrency asset
with no counterparty risk which can be used as collateral in the sector.
Therefore bitcoin will always be subject to extreme volatility in case of
insolvencies in the sector. This is not the first time nor the last it will
happen.






Ultimately, DeFi’s artificial yield game will play against one’s bitcoin stash.
Every bitcoin which is left in third-party custody or rather pledged as
collateral, will be used against its ultimate owner. It will be lent out or
collateralized in a spiraling game of leverage with shitcoins and
un-stablecoins. When prices go down this triggers margin calls and the
liquidation of the only real asset pledged as collateral in a cascading effect
of ever-increasing margin calls and liquidations to cover the losses. In the end
one will lose both the speculative altcoin position and the collateralized
bitcoins. By using the structural weaknesses of fragile protocols like
Terra/LUNA, smart players can trigger margin calls and liquidations thereby
gaining both from shorting the shitcoin, betting safely against bitcoin on the
futures market (they are causing the price drop so it is a safe bet) and then
closing the positions by buying the suckers’ bitcoin on the cheap. They can
further double the bet by going long on the futures market as well. An easy and
safe bet given enough “firepower.” And traditional finance has plenty of
firepower thanks to the leveraged debt-based fiat system. Unless of course,
Bitcoiners finally wake up and stop playing in DeFi’s casino and stop
collateralizing their bitcoin.


REALITY CHECK: BITCOIN IS STRONGER THAN EVER

Truth is, like most of bitcoin’s pullbacks before, this one too has very little
to do with Bitcoin itself.






The protocol is stronger than ever. The following charts will give you an idea
of the exponential growth of the network.

Figure 1 — Hash Rate


The growth of the Lightning Network — which is a real proxy for Bitcoin’s
adoption mainly in the East and global South — has been impressive. Here is the
chart:


Figure 2 — Lightning


Lightning can handle 1 million transactions per second, while Visa handles
24,000 per second. The network has been increasing its capacity and is currently
handling approximately 4,000 BTC on public channels.

Kraken, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has now added Lightning to its standard
payment options and it has released an intelligence report showing very
interesting data on Lightning growth and adoption.

According to the Kraken Report "Lightning usage has been on a steep upwards
trajectory since late 2020, growing parabolically in September 2021
corresponding with the introduction of BTC as legal tender in El Salvador.
Still, public metrics do not describe the full extent of Lightning adoption
because of the number of users in the Lightning ecosystem utilizing private
channels."






Figure 3 — Lightning Nodes


Regarding the Lightning nodes´growth (Figure 2), Kraken states "Furthermore, the
growth in the sheer number of Lightning nodes indicates that the network is
beginning to see many new participants. Nodes saw continuous growth from 2018 to
late August 2020, rising from 54 to 6,134. However, node growth has since gone
parabolic, rising over 176% to 16,940 nodes at the time of writing. Lightning
node growth has proliferated so fast that there are now roughly 1,000 more
Lightning nodes than Bitcoin nodes. Should adoption continue to grow at this
rate, the Lightning network could realize BTC’s potential as a medium of
exchange asset — an essential feature for global money that was previously a
bottleneck for BTC going mainstream."

Among developing countries El Salvador has been leading the path towards Bitcoin
adoption. While I have been and remain critical of the risky strategy adopted by
the country, I grant that President Bukele has taken a “revolutionary” step, and
a historical one for a nation-state. Therefore, El Salvador’s success remains
fundamental for Bitcoin’s future adoption among developing countries. So far El
Salvador´s results are encouraging.





In this interview President Bukele states that a large portion of the previously
unbanked population may now financially transact with bitcoin. President Bukele
stated, “If it works, why would any other country not want to do the same thing?
Imagine a country like El Salvador, which had 75% of people unbanked. Imagine in
a year from now, that's down to 10%. We have been trying for, I don't know, 30
years to bank our people, and it has been impossible, because they don't trust
the banks, because the banks don't want to give service to them, because the
services are too expensive, whatever.”





More importantly though, Salvadoran citizens will save over $400 million per
year in fees from direct remittances from expatriates abroad. This is over 2.5%
of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). This was a major factor in making
the decision to adopt Bitcoin. And this number can only increase since the cost
of remittances through intermediaries — which currently stands between 5% to
over 20% — will go down to practically zero. So if you are a Salvadoran
expatriate and you currently try to limit remittances, you pool them in the
largest possible transactions to reduce the impact of the fees. If you now have
substantially zero fees using bitcoin via the Lightning channel then you could
remit even a small amount whenever you have the chance.



No doubt many developing countries are looking at El Salvador’s experience and
are preparing to follow in its steps.


BITCOIN IS THE BEST FORM OF MONEY EVER INVENTED SO FAR

Sound money has ruled human monetary history while an unconstrained fiat money
standard has been the peculiar case of only the last 50 years. While the topic
of sound money and fiat money in monetary history is not the purpose of this
article, I still need to make an important point.

Money has been primarily a technological issue. Technology has always dictated
the transition from a less technological form of money to a superior one. Think
about the transition from primitive forms of money to gold and silver thanks to
the invention of coinage and the standardization of weight in ancient Greece
(for a good history of money read Dr. Saifedean Ammous’ "The Bitcoin Standard").
The fundamental reason why gold was abandoned as money was because it could not
be moved through space and time at the same speed of information and commerce as
new technologies appeared. Historically, the banking sector was born to
arbitrage the opportunity created by technological developments by initially
substituting gold´s cumbersome circulation with convenient to use paper “IOUs”
fully backed by gold reserves held at the bank. The next step was to move to a
fractional reserve system partially backed by gold and, once enough trust was
built into the fractional fiat system, the fractional reserve asset was
completely abandoned to conveniently install an unbacked fiat currency system
based solely on paper claims, which gifted the “elites” with the riches and
privileges granted by the Cantillon effect: a five=decade sleight of hand which
is coming, one way or another, to an end.






So it was technological progress and the laws of physics which rendered gold
obsolete and impractical as a bearer asset for financial/business transactions
in modern times. Gold could only serve as a reserve asset. This was the true
reason for its demise as a bearer settlement asset first and for its full
demonetization later.

Bitcoin´s revolutionary technology completely changes that paradigm.

Nowadays there is no opportunity to arbitrage time and space in financial
transactions by offering soft/unsound money solely because it moves faster than
hard money. Bitcoin fills that gap.

Not only can nowadays bitcoin travel faster than fiat money, but it also has the
additional advantages — as a bearer settlement asset — to have cash-like
immediate finality, more security, total immutability and absolute scarcity

Bingo.

Therefore, as far as technology is concerned, Bitcoin is a superior form of
money compared to anything humanity has ever experienced so far. 12 years after
its creation still nothing compares to Bitcoin, full stop.

While it remains impossible to forecast what the course of its adoption and its
monetization process will be in the future — because that will depend on too
many variables — Bitcoin is there for everyone to use, to experiment with and
there's no way to put the genie back in the bottle.







THE ENERGY TRANSITION AND A HIGHLY INFLATIONARY MACROECONOMIC BACKGROUND WILL
FAVOR BITCOIN

All the FUD thrown at Bitcoin has been entirely debunked in its 12 year history.
However there is always something new coming up. Regardless of the reasons
behind it, this is after all a worthwhile exercise since it enables the
community to focus on critical aspects, analyze them and propose solutions. If
the critics are reasonably motivated the effect can only be positive. The latest
addition to the FUD narrative has been Bitcoin’s energy use. The topic is not
new and it has been very effectively and rationally discussed on many occasions.
The Bitcoin Mining Council, in particular, has done a great job in responding to
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “misperceptions” about Bitcoin
mining. Here you can find the Council’s response letter to the EPA.

In addition, a number of competent authors have done a great job in analyzing
the real aspects of Bitcoin’s energy use and its complexities. Among them Nic
Carter is certainly one of the most prolific and competent. Here you can find
all his interesting articles on the topic. The critics, even if largely
instrumental in the demonization of Bitcoin, had the positive effect of
fostering a change in mining operations towards the use of residual energy
sources — which would be lost in any case or would negatively impact the
environment like gas flaring/venting in oil fields or using landfill methane —
and the stabilization of energy grids in critical instances. Very important
developments which the MSM has totally disregarded, obviously.






Therefore, going forward — despite the debunking and the rapid progress of
Bitcoin’s “alternative” mining — one should only expect that the pressure
applied using the energy consumption FUD narrative will continue to increase in
the future.

The reason is that climate change has been erected by the World Economic Forum’s
Davos 2022 conference as their foundational narrative to justify all sorts of
restrictions on human activity. From praising the virtues of the destructive —
for both the economies and the health of human beings — COVID-19 lockdowns to
the U.N. praising the virtues of famine, to the banning of Bitcoin mining or
“unhosted” wallets. Therefore the fight against this new type of FUD will be
much more difficult. Simply debunking their arguments with real data, statistics
and counter arguments will have little impact against the massive firepower at
their disposal in terms of money and the support this money buys from the
corrupted mainstream media.

But in the medium-long term the green energy transition narrative forced by
Davos 2022 will ultimately play in favor of Bitcoin.

Energy markets expert Dr. Anas F. Alhajji points out in this interesting
“MacroVoices” interview that “a major global energy crisis is inevitable. That
crisis is essentially created by our political leaders’ policy, which is forcing
away key investments in the oil and gas sector before the alternative
replacement had realistically been phased in.”






Simply put, only an insane person will stop investing in a fundamental resource
which keeps the whole economy and societal life running until a reliable
replacement has been found. Unless of course the consequent massive energy
crisis and the double-digit inflation which will be arising from that “insane”
policy is exactly what they want and what they need. Indeed, in addition to
benefiting from directing hundreds of billions of freshly printed fiat
currencies into the pockets of their own ESG (environmental, social and
corporate governance) players, "what they want and what they need" is to fulfill
a complex agenda whose ultimate and true objective is NOT the "green transition"
but the transition to a new monetary system to save their old privileges: a
monetary reset.


That is a key point to be noted.

What is going on does not happen by chance. Nor it is simply the result of the
politicians’ incompetence. My belief is that it is a deliberate policy choice,
and the agenda includes (i) inflating the excessive debt away, (ii) the
unavoidable (high) inflation of the national currencies will be used as the
excuse to transition into a new monetary system based on CBDCs. Western
populations - while impoverished and annihilated by monetary inflation - will be
easily made dependent on governmental subsidies, and they will easily accept
free digital currencies in their wallets to survive at the expense of their
freedoms; and (iii) this will consequently achieve the final objective of
installing a global government, a global money and the global enslavement of
populations.

Adding to this point, macroeconomic advisor Luke Gromen, points out in this
MacroVoices interview: “The ECB can never raise rates high enough to reduce
energy input inflation without blowing up the debt, when they're cutting back
their energy inputs from the Russians. And so, what's the response you get?
Well, you see it in the U.K., we're gonna start handing out 400 pounds to
everybody because energy costs have gone up, are you insane? They are literally
setting up an energy hyperinflation death spiral with their currencies, which,
if I'm looking at it from a very Machiavellian point of view, there's I think
probably certain interests in Washington that would love to see that happen.
Watch the Eurozone implode and get those German surpluses recycled back into
buying Treasurys instead of financing, you know, Southern European deficits.”






As I write, the euro is down to parity against the dollar and is breaking below
parity against the Swiss franc — levels not seen since exactly 20 years ago in
2002.

So if it is inflation that they want on one side of the ocean, Luke Gromen adds
that it is not different on the other side of it: “The balance sheet of the
United States is our leading indicator, and it tells you that we are going to
get inflation for a long time to come. And just by way of context, the 8% CPI
inflation we saw in 2021. It took our deficit from 129% of GDP to 122% of GDP.
You have to have inflation run higher than your interest coupon for an extended
period of time. So we need double-digit inflation for probably five years.”

Summing up, an artificially created global energy crisis is in the making and
double-digit inflation is very likely to persist for a very long time because —
in the end — this is what Western governments need to destroy their excessive
debt.

To further make the point there is also a concurrent artificially created global
food crisis in the making which — despite the West blaming of Russia — clearly
has nothing to do with the war. This food crisis has been set up by a few global
players who have cornered the food commodities market. Again, those few players
are also part of the Davos elite and owned by the usual suspects who profit from
their oligopolistic market position. A handful of global funds which basically
own all the global companies: Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard, Bill Gates
Foundations, George Soros, etc.







Regardless of the causes though, the highly inflationary macroeconomic
background which is shaping up will be net positive for Bitcoin for two reasons:

(i) while Davos-sponsored ESG and green energy transition projects will fail
miserably — simply because there is currently not yet a viable timely
alternative to fossil fuels and this will soon force governments to either go
back to more polluting alternatives like coal (already happening in the “green”
EU) or simply collapse — Bitcoin miners are extremely flexible to respond to
market signs and incentives. If oil and gas prices go through the roof then they
will switch to untapped renewable sources, since you can mine bitcoin in the
middle of the desert with solar panels well away from energy grids.

(ii) The response by governments to the energy crisis will be to print more
money to hand out subsidies to the impoverished citizens. This creates a highly
inflationary environment which is bullish for Bitcoin, the ultimate scarce
asset.


THE GEOPOLITICAL BACKGROUND HAS NEVER BEEN MORE BULLISH FOR BITCOIN

The Western indiscriminate sanctions on Russia — with the unlawful and arbitrary
expropriation of Russian assets, both private and state-owned — together with
the weaponization of the dollar and its payment rails (SWIFT), have shown to the
global South and the East of the world that the Western “democracies” are a joke
and their monetary system is terminally ill. They may be looking for
alternatives to transact business without using the dollar and its payment
rails. The entire world has learned from Russia’s hard lesson what each
Bitcoiner learns first — the equivalent of “not your keys not your bitcoin.”
U.S. Treasurys are not a safe asset to own if you do not conform to the issuer’s
diktats. Nor is it safe to hold “reserves” in the dollar or euro currencies or
entrust gold reserves with a Western central bank. All can be seized and
expropriated on a whim. This is the lesson that all the independent (or willing
to be) countries in the world have learned from recent events. And the lessons
won’t be forgotten anytime soon.






So, while the West has committed economic and monetary suicide, the rational bet
can only be bullish bitcoin, regardless of its short-term volatility caused by
the deleveraging in the cryptocurrency space.

Why the West collectively commits economic suicide though is a much more complex
question to answer. While this is commonly blamed on the Western politicians’
incompetence (which is also a factor), the truthful explanation lies with the
role that the Davos globalist elite plays in directing those politicians who
have been co-opted within their powerful network. The Davos elite are the
puppeteers and the Western politicians are their puppets.



For anyone familiar with how the lobbying system and the “revolving doors” work
in advancing one’s interest and agendas at political level, it should not take a
lot of imagination to figure out what Davos-supported politicians would do to
advance the agenda of their sponsors.

Among their ranks it is not only the Davos WEF which plays a key influential
role in nurturing and shaping the young global leaders of the future, but also
parallel, complex and interlocking networks like the Bilderberg Meetings, the
Trilateral Commission, the Atlantic Council, the Fabian Society or the Soros
Open Society.




Image source






Make no mistake, those sponsored politicians are not idiots (well some are …).
They are very well paid actors and they are fulfilling their role splendidly.
They are executors and they have to implement an agenda. The puppeteers and
their puppets know what they are doing.

By expropriating Russia’s assets and by weaponizing the dollar they have killed
the dollar, the U.S. Treasurys and the euro as reserve currencies and safe
assets. This suicidal move of the U.S. administration cannot be explained if not
with the prevalence within the U.S. government of non-American interest. Indeed,
rather than American interest, the latest moves are beneficial to a global
government and global money at the expense of the reserve status of the U.S.
dollar.

Basically, both the U.S. administration and the EU, do not represent their
citizens anymore — rather, they represent the gang of Davos. Independent
geopolitical analyst Tom Luongo shares the same view: “… that the American
president, ‘as a proxy for the oligarchs in Davos, is acting on their behalf to
ultimately weaken the U.S.’”



All this, aims to create the crisis needed to transition to a new monetary
system based on a supranational/global money which could well be the special
drawing rights (SDR) reserve asset of the International Monetary Fund. Under
that global money a new set of national digital currencies (in the form of
CBDCs) could be used to guarantee their globalist puppet governments the very
same old privileges which they enjoyed so far in an unconstrained fiat system:
unlimited power to create digital fiat money and control how this is spent.
Their vassals would continue to profit from the Cantillon effect at the expense
of society and continue to expropriate real valuable assets in exchange for fiat
digital worthless currencies. Wealth inequality will continue to increase.





Global enslavement could ensue for the ignorant masses globally.

Everything changes and nothing changes.

With some luck though, their plan now has two fierce adversaries. The first one
they have themselves created and it is the unexpected and unwelcome result of
their geopolitical crazy games. The other one has been there since 2009 but only
more recently came into their crosshairs.

Russia and China, together with the rest of the global South and the East, have
been forced in an inextricable alliance for survival and independence from the
West. They have had enough and have stopped playing a game made by someone else
with someone else´s rules. The short-lived American unipolar global order — born
in 1989 after the fall of communism — ends now, and a new multipolar order is
born. Again, this new multipolar order and the consequent deglobalization,
should be a thriving environment for Bitcoin, the embodiment of
decentralization. Since gold and bitcoin are the only existing assets with no
counterparty risk they might even play a role in the coming monetary reset. They
might be part of the basket of currencies and/or commodities chosen to back up
the SDR or whatever else is chosen. In this article I have postulated the
reasons why a monetary reset might mean $18,000 gold and $650,000 bitcoin.






“More likely though governments will not use bitcoin but only gold in a monetary
reset. After all this is the real asset that the biggest central banks own.
Bitcoin then will become the preferred reserve asset for all non-sovereign
institutions and also small developing nations which have little gold reserves.
In this scenario, the Bitcoin standard will be likely adopted by the legacy
financial sector, commercial banks (which can use bitcoin as a reserve asset to
offer a new wave of commercial free banking services), corporations and
individuals. Basically, the world might be using two monetary systems mutually
integrated: an upper tier - for governments and central banks - running with SDR
as the global world currency fractionally backed up by gold reserves; and a
lower tier for small sovereigns, banks and individuals running on national fiat
currencies and bitcoin as a reserve asset, frictionless moving between fiat
currencies for expenditures and bitcoin for savings. This would be the ideal
solution."

At least this is what I hope. Anything short of that will mean a dark future for
humanity.


CONCLUSIONS

Despite the recent price pullback, Bitcoin’s fundamentals and its investment
case are stronger than ever. Never before has the protocol been more secure. It
continues to grow and adoption is on the rise especially in developing
countries, where Bitcoin represents a lifesaver for millions of people. As we
have seen, even the most recent geopolitical events paint a bullish case for
Bitcoin. That background though is fluid, complex and with so many variables, it
is impossible to forecast what the outcomes will be.

The war in the heart of Europe, the high risk of an escalation outside of
Ukraine’s borders, the high inflation and a global crisis building up in the
energy, commodities and food sectors and the Western currencies inflating after
years of monetary madness to fund consumerism and asset bubbles rather than
productive investment: All this should in my opinion compellingly direct
investors towards the ONLY asset which acts as protection against such complex
and worrisome background thanks to its unique features. Bitcoin achieves
absolute scarcity, true decentralization, censorship resistance, immutability,
the highest protocol security, unlimited portability, relative anonymity and
unique cash-like finality to settle peer-to-peer transactions in a parallel
financial system. But this is the first time in history that we are at such a
complex juncture with Bitcoin so we will have to see what happens next.






Then we have the Davos variable.

The powerful financial elite and the new tech oligarchs own also the largest
mainstream media channels and publications and basically all the leading global
corporations in an intricate web of money, power and vested interest which is
unprecedented in recent modern history. For years they have also funded, formed,
nurtured, sponsored and shaped the minds of their career bureaucrats and
political puppets and have installed them in key posts to take care of their
interests. As they are pulling the strings to fight those non-aligned
governments - which thrive for independence and do not want to bow to their new
global order in the geopolitical arena - you should also expect that they will
fight Bitcoin tooth and nail, since Bitcoin is THE tool which enables true
independence, self-sovereignty and decentralization.

It is a fight between two powerful forces. The one pushes towards an
authoritarian globalist regime based on the central banks’ control of new
digital money, the abuse of surveillance tech and the control of big data. The
other is a fully decentralized asymmetrical technology which empowers the
majority of the people over elitist central entities thanks to the unique
combination of cryptography, encryption, difficulty adjustment and POW
(proof-of-work - this is why POW is needed and the whole debate about POW and
proof-of-stake for Bitcoin is preposterous).






It is a battle between a top-down authoritarian power and a bottom-up tech
market-based revolution which can bring about the very much needed separation of
State and money.



One is the dark Middle Ages, the other is the early American dream and the
Western frontier free spirit.



Someone said that being decentralized does not mean being disorganized. I agree.
It is probably high time for Bitcoiners to come together in an organization
similar to the Bitcoin Mining Council, at least to study the scenarios and the
background that I have mentioned in this article and somehow elaborate some
countertactics. At least debating over such topics will also bring ideas.

Count me in.

As for the rest, Bitcoin remains “the wrench thrown in the evil globalist
engine.” It will no doubt continue to do its work against evil and for the free
world provided we let it do what it has been programmed to do.

Being a Bitcoiner means always holding your keys, having a low time preference
and

investing for the future to be a free man.

This is a guest post by Andrea Bianconi. Opinions expressed are entirely their
own and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc. or Bitcoin Magazine.


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