Hey everyone, welcome back to Bitcoin for Millennials, this
time a solo episode, and I think this is going to shift how you
see everything, not just Bitcoin, but perhaps even
reality itself. I want to talk about why the
most powerful people on earth, the people who control the
money, the media, the language you think, and why they have
tried repeatedly to kill Bitcoin and why they keep failing.
Because you understand why they want it dead.
You start to understand something much bigger.
You start to understand the game you're actually in.
Stay with me on this one. Let's start with the obvious
question. Why would the most powerful
people on earth care about some random magic Internet money?
I mean, think about it. In the early days of Bitcoin, it
was nothing. It was a white paper and some
nerds on a random Internet forum running codes on their laptops.
People are talking about Jeffrey Epstein showing interest, right?
Why was he so interested in Bitcoin early on?
Why would someone connected to intelligence agencies, to the
highest echelons of global power, care about the technology
that most people dismissed as a scam or a joke?
Because he understood, or his handlers understood that Bitcoin
is the one thing that they cannot control.
And for people whose entire existence is built on control,
that's an existential threat. But to really understand why
Bitcoin terrifies them, you have to understand the architecture
of control itself. How deep it goes, how old it is,
and how invisible it is to most people.
Here's the thing that blew my mind when I started going down
this rabbit hole. The control doesn't start with
banks. It doesn't start with
governments. It starts with language.
The very words that you used to think have been shaped over
centuries. Not randomly, but shaped.
Take the word mortgage. You probably have one, or you
want one, or you're trying to pay one off.
You know what it actually means? It comes from the old French Mor
gauge. Mor means debt and gauge means
pledge. A mortgage is a death pledge or
currency. It flows from the Latin
currents, meaning to run, to flow like a current, like energy
moving through a system. The people who designed these
monetary systems understood something about energy and
exchange that most of us have completely forgotten.
Here's another wild one. The word grammar shares a root
with grimoire, which is a book of magic, spells and glamour.
That's a Scottish variant of grammar that originally meant
enchantment magic. In medieval times, literacy was
so rare it was associated with the clergy and their mysterious
Latin texts. Reading and writing was
perceived as a form of power, as a kind of magic.
So when we talk about spelling words, we're using language that
connects directly to casting spells, language as enchantment,
language as a tool for shaping reality.
You know, George Orwell understood this deeply.
In 1984, he created New Speak, a language designed with one
purpose. The whole aim of New Speak is to
narrow the range of fought. And in the end, we shall make
fought crime literally impossible because there will be
no words in which to express it. That sounds like a playbook to
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who want to kill Bitcoin they've been using this playbook for
centuries. Now let me tell you about Edward
Bernays because disconnects directly to why the powerful
fear Bitcoin Bernays was the so-called father of public
relations. He was Sigmund Freud's nephew,
which matters because he weaponized his uncle's
psychological insights for mass manipulation.
In 1928, he published a book called Propaganda and the
Opening Line. Well, just listen to this.
The consciousness and intelligence manipulation of the
organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important
element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen
mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which
is the true ruling power of our country.
Sounds interesting. His most famous trick was the
Torches of Freedom campaign in 1929.
He was hired to expend the female cigarette market.
Women didn't really smoke because it was taboo.
So he staged a group of women lighting cigarettes during New
York's Easter Sunday parade, tipped off the journalist in
advance, and overnight cigarettes went from taboo to
symbols of feminine liberation, manufacturing desire, true
symbolic manipulation. This is what these systems do
every day, all the time. And here's another one.
Research by Herbert Krugman documented that within one
minute of television viewing, brain waves switch from better
waves, active and logical, to alpha waves, passive and
suggestible. The very act of watching TV puts
you in a trance state. And what do we call them?
TV programs. Programs, as in programming your
mind through the television. Television And then we have
Operation Mockingbird. Carl Bernstein's 1977 expose in
Rolling Stone revealed that more than 400 American journalists
had secretly carried out assignments for the CIA over 25
years. And when the CIA director was
questioned, you know what he said?
Let's not pick on some poor reporters.
Let's go to the management. They were aware of it all.
So you've got language, shape to limit your thinking, media
designed to put you in a trance, and an invisible government.
Renee's words, not mine. Running the whole show.
Now ask yourself, why would these types of people want to
kill Bitcoin? Because Bitcoin breaks the
entire architecture. See, every tool of control, the
money, the media, the language, it all relies on one thing.
Centralization. Someone at the top decides what
the words mean. Someone at the top decides what
gets broadcast. Someone at the top decides how
much money exists, who gets it first, and what it's worth.
This has been the game forever. And I mean forever.
The ancient Gnostics described this 2000 years ago.
They called them Archons, rulers who keep humanity trapped in
ignorance. In the Nag Hammadi texts they
wrote, they threw mankind into great distraction and into a
life of toil so that their mankind might be occupied by
worldly affairs and might not have the opportunity of being
devoted to the Holy Spirit. Replace Archons with systems of
control and tell me that doesn't describe modern life with
uncomfortable position. Plato's allegory of The Cave
gives us a similar insight. Prisoners change from birth,
watching shadows on a wall, believing those shadows to be
reality. When 1 escapes and comes back to
tell the others about the real world, they threaten to kill
him. They threaten to kill him.
Sounds familiar? That's what happens to Bitcoin.
Every time it challenges the narrative, every time it
threatens the system, they try to kill it.
They've declared Bitcoin dead over 400 times and it's still
here. Just go on LinkedIn or watch a
mainstream media news item and you'll see what I mean.
Now here's the thing that ties this all together, and this is
the part that most people miss. This battle, this war between
centralized control and individual sovereignty, is not
new. It's not modern.
It is the oldest story in human existence.
The Kibalian, A hermetic text drawing on ancient Egyptian
principles, teaches the principle of polarity.
Everything is dual. Everything has poles.
Everything has its pair of opposites.
Like and unlike are the same. Opposites are identical in
nature but different in degree. Good and evil, light and dark,
order and chaos, creation and destruction, control and
freedom. These aren't separate forces
locked in combat. They're different positions on
the same spectrum. The Taoist understood this
beautifully. The Dao the Ching says when
people see some things as beautiful, other things become
ugly. When people see some things as
good, other things become bad. Being and non being create each
other, and Alan Watts explained it like this.
At the very roots of Chinese thinking lies the principle of
polarity, which is not to be confused with the ideas of
opposition or conflict. In Western culture, light is at
war with darkness, good with evil.
But to the Taoist way of thinking, this is as
incomprehensible as an electric current without both positive
and negative pulse. They need each other, Ying and
Yang, each containing a seed of the other, neither able to exist
without the other. So when we talk about the
powerful trying to kill Bitcoin, we're witnessing the latest
expression of this eternal tension, the force of
centralized control trying to eliminate the force of the
centralized freedom. It has always happened and it
will always happen. But here's the crucial question
that Kibalian poses. The masses of people are carried
along, obedient to environment, the wills and desires of others
stronger than themselves, moving them about like pawns on a chess
board of life. But the masters rising to the
plane above help to play the game of life instead of being
played. Now, are you a pawn or are you a
player? Let me get specific about why
they can't kill Bitcoin, because this is what makes it so
extraordinary. Bitcoin has no CEO, no
headquarters, no board of directors, no single point of
failure, and over 25,000 independent operating nodes
maintain the protocol and its Ledger globally.
You do not need permission from anybody to mine.
You do not need permissions to run a node.
Think about what that means. Every other system of power in
human history has had a head you can cut off, a center you can
capture, a leader you can corrupt or even kill.
And Bitcoin does not have that. Bitcoins protocol is like the
rules of chess or mathematics or physics.
Once the idea is out there, no authority can change it by
decree. If someone wants to change the
rules in a way that's incompatible with the existing
protocol, they can no longer talk to the other participants.
It's the equivalent of starting a completely separate game.
Like I make up my own game of chess.
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Now let's continue. In 2017 a powerful group tried
to change bitcoins rules. They had money, they had
influence, they had corporate backing.
They created Bitcoin cash. And then what happened?
The network, 10s of thousands of independent nodes run by regular
people chose which version to validate.
Now the CEO, not a committee, not a billionaire, but
consensus. The powerful tried and the
powerful failed. Bitcoin is proof of work.
It converts physical energy into security.
It is thermodynamically bound, transmuting electricity in what
you could think of as digital gold.
In reality, it is vastly superior.
You cannot fake thermodynamics. You cannot print energy.
You cannot corrupt physics. Bitcoin's blockchain, or it's
Ledger itself is an immutable, verifiable record.
Anyone who checks the Bitcoin blockchain right now will see
the exact same thing as anyone else anywhere on earth.
There is no subjectivity. There's no other technology that
can give you that. In a world build on lies,
manipulation, and manufactured reality, Bitcoin is a beacon, an
anchor of absolute truth. And that's why they wanted that.
Now compare Bitcoin to what the powerful are building instead.
Let me tell you what the Chinese CBDC already includes Complete
transaction visibility, instant ability to freeze accounts,
programmable spending restrictions, balance caps on
wallets and in some trials, money with expiration dates.
Money with an expiration date. US Congressman Tom Emmer who
wrote the Anti CBDC Surveillance State Act said it plainly.
A central bank digital currency is a government controlled
programmable money that could give the federal government an
unprecedented abilities to surveil Americans financial
transactions and suppress politically unpopular activity.
This is what the powerful are building while they are trying
to kill Bitcoin. The old prison with new walls.
The same game with digital chains.
If you dismiss Bitcoin and choose D systems, you don't
understand that you're staying trapped in a game where other
people dictate the rules. You're consciously choosing to
remain a subject that is subject to its rulers.
So here's the fundamental choice, and I think this is the
most important thing I've ever said on this podcast.
You are in a game right now. You have always been in this
game. The only question is what kind
of game you want to play in the future.
There's Path A be a subject in someone else's game, operate
within controlled systems where rulers can change rules whenever
they want, freeze your assets, survey your transactions, and
exclude you at will. Your mortgage is a death pledge,
your media is a programming device, and your money is
controlled by people who see you as a pawn.
Or you can take path B Bitcoin, be an actor in a game with only
rules, operate in a system with transparent, immutable rules
applied equally to everyone. The 21 million supply cap, the
consensus rules, the transaction validation, it all applies
identically. Whether you're an individual or
a nation state, wherever you come from, whatever you like,
whatever you dislike, or whatever you look like.
No one can be excluded, no one can change the rules
unilaterally. Rules without rulers and
sovereignty without permission. Here's the beautiful part.
Here's what makes Bitcoin different from every revolution
that came before it. If there's ever a version of
this game that nobody wants anymore, you can fork off.
You can propose changes and see if people want to follow.
And the network will decide. Not a ruler, not a committee,
not an intelligence agency. The collective will of free
participants. And this is how Bitcoin
perpetuates forever. Not true force, but true
voluntary choice. Now let me bring this all the
way home. The most powerful people on
earth try to kill Bitcoin because Bitcoin is the first
thing that they cannot control. And for people whose entire
existence is built on control, a system without controllers is
the end of their world. They controlled the language,
they controlled the media, they controlled the money.
They had the whole architecture locked down.
And then some anonymous person, I think it was a duo actually,
They released an idea into the world that can't be captured,
that can't be corrupted, and it cannot be killed.
The Gnostics warned about the Archons 2000 years ago, Plato
warned about The Cave, and Bernays wrote the manual for
manipulation in 1928, and the CIA ran Operation Mockingbird
for decades. The mechanisms differ, but the
patterns persist. The powerful control and the
people comply, and the prison remains invisible to those
inside it. But for the first time in human
history, there's an exit they cannot close, a door that they
cannot lock, a system that answers to no one and serves
everyone who adopts it equally. They've tried to kill it over
400 times. They called it a scam, a bubble,
a tool for criminals, A Ponzi or whatever.
They've thrown every weapon they have added, and it's still here.
Because you cannot kill an idea, you cannot kill mathematics, you
cannot kill the truth. This is why Bitcoin is an idea
whose time has come. The spiritual war between
control and freedom, between centralization and sovereignty,
between consciousness and sleep. This has been going on forever.
The Taoist knew it, the Hermeticist knew it, the
Gnostics knew it. Every wisdom tradition in human
history recognized this eternal tension.
So what's different now is that we, the plebs, we have a weapon,
a tool that they cannot take away.
And Bitcoin won't end this war. Nothing will end this war
because existence requires the tension of opposites.
But Bitcoin shifts this balance. It gives individuals a tool that
no centralized force can capture.
And the choice is yours. You can stay upon on someone
else's chess board or pick up the 1 weapon that the most
powerful people on earth have tried to destroy and couldn't.
They tried to kill it, they failed.
They'll try again and they'll fail again.
Because Bitcoin does not need anyone's permission to exist and
neither do you. That's it for this episode.
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