The idea of a peer to peer border less, un-confiscatable payment system is an amazing idea that I as well as many of you fell instantly in love with as soon as I heard about it. An idea so good that many people, even those that do not necessarily need or want peer to peer border less, un-confiscatable payment system can nonetheless see the merit and appeal in the system.

Reality check boys and girl — to actually achieve the “Satoshi” vision we will almost certainly have to fight for it and this fight will have to occur across nations simultaneously and require a convincing victory against military powers across the globe. No-one gets an advantage of this scale in this world without a fight and no-one ever has. The only reason certain privileges were granted to your ancestors in the past was because they were useful in some way to someone. Rather then let your great great great grandpa and ma survive in the wild, they were given land, education a house, a vote and entertainment in exchange for some service some noble person required from them. Consider education for a moment, most people think this is a god given right. The education system was developed to train people to work in industry. When computers can do things better than you, what is your use? and why would anyone want to take care of you let alone give you power and control over the global financial system? The most hilarious thing is, even if you did have control ,95% of you are going to spend it all on mind altering substances, trying to get laid, and video games anyway. That is exactly why you are at the bottom or maybe in the middle of the pile in the first place.

When I say fight for it I really mean fight with your life on the line. Now consider that most of the hodlers of bitcoin sit around computers all day playing games, have no way to coordinate an attack without being detected by authorities have no funds left to invest in weapons that can be used in such a fight (let alone the training or skills to use them) and you will soon realize that it’s time to wake the fuck up. Take the red pill , the Bitcoin vision is the matrix and you have been tricked into it by the lure of short cutting a way to the top, getting rich and getting one over on your superiors. All of these youtubers like Vortex, Jimmy Song and Tone Vays have been feeding your greed delusion and although you have been paying them with your attention the most valuable thing you have paid with is your soul. You have confused your desire for a better, fairer world(and all that bullshit) with your desire to be relevant and wealthy.

Just to clarify what I mean by soul. To me soul is the clearness of thinking an individual can possess.Your soul is a mental anchor that allows one to orient in storms and prevents you from drifting in confusion.

Now take a deep breath forgive yourself for being such a fool and look at things rationally and honestly. For some of you this may take a few years for others it may take a few minutes as you already know back there in your head what i’m saying to be true. I’m pretty sure most of you will go on believing any shit that makes you feel better as most of us always do.

But listen, do me the courtesy of humoring the position I am about to present, just at least pretend like it’s something that will benefit you.

Bitcoin, as much as we all love the rebellious and innovative sentiments that are attached to it is primarily the play thing of those that reign in the financial markets. In the same way you are attracted to the lure of bitcoin, the determined unscrupulous money extractors that have made it their business to prey on feeble, greedy minds are attracted to the lure of you being attracted to the lure and have anticipated and exploited the instinctive drive of the pseudo - rebel such as you and me. You may feel like an individual but understand this. Your belief system, character and behavior is represented by a relatively reliable percentage of the Homo sapiens population. I guarantee you there is a graphic similar to the one below floating around somewhere in the mail boxes of marketers profiling you to uncanny precision. It’s probably titled Meet Dick.

The institutional financial services are well and truly right in and will stay in until they have fed on every last morsel of your soul. The ones to get it last are the ones that got in first and hold on thinking they can get more,more, more. We are simple and predictable mammals in the large part and quite adorably easy to manipulate. Suck it up mofo :)

So what is my point? The pseudo-rebel rhetoric is over, the peer to peer payment system for the masses is a ridiculous notion but BTC still has value chiefly in serving a similar function as offshore accounts currently do i.e protecting assets so the very wealthy can shield their assets from seizure and avoid paying tax. Not a bad use case although when you consider the relative fledgling status of BTC and the network that secures it, people with money (that they go to great lengths to protect) are hardly likely to switch all in. However it should at least remain a marginal use case for the experimental.

As the price drops, no-one is going to buy back in , the pseudo-rebels have realized they have been played by now. Obviously a few morons will double down, they always do, but the show is over. Thank fuck for that. Now is the time for the useful to start making ground and deliver on the promise of this technology.

What will this be? Where will it come from?

It will come from whoever has enough capital to play the trial and error game long enough (or from some extremely lucky marginal player) and it will be whatever hits the spot in that game of trial and error. If you don’t have the imagination to see how the tech can be used in everyday life you are probably better off steering clear of all this crypto investment stuff altogether and spend your time and money trying the various products that are coming out, sharing them and seeking feedback . If you and those around you find something interesting, applicable and useful it’s likely others will and now you can invest in it.

All BTC has now is the brand (that is eroding everyday with the latest forks and fuckary of certain players) other than the brand it is largely pointless and irrelevant given the fact that any digital currency can be used for payments and it’s pretty obvious most of the people on the planet don’t even see the libertarian value in a peer to peer borderless, un-confiscatable payment system. Even if you could convince them of the relevance and significance of BTC to their personal liberty most of them would rather stay with the devil they know and are most probably sick of hearing you bang on about how enlightened you are in any case. The chances they will join your pseudo-rebel band of militia to overthrow the financial system to liberate all the people of the world from the honorable goat herders of Mongolia to the disgraceful junkies of LA are pretty low I would say.

So in summary this is where my thoughts on the topic lead me too.

BTC appears to me to be the most risky of all the crypto investments out there and the most useless considering that I do not have a need for offshore banking.

Why?

Because, if BTC goes up the projects offering value go up with it so you may as well invest in these projects. If BTC dies the projects offering value will go up eventually so you may as well invest in these projects.

I’m not suggesting anyone should dump their BTC unless of course you are over leveraged and have kids to feed. I’m assuming that if you have read this far you most probably have only staked what you are semi-comfortable losing anyway, so probably best to ride it out and maybe the store of value for the financial elite is a valid use case that pays off for you.

I am strongly suggesting not to drop another cent into BTC, don’t “buy the fucking dip”, at least until we have discovered the potential of this technology and where we can go with it.

I am advocating that all of us use the tech that is being created and share your experience good or bad with the people making this stuff and using this stuff.

I’m not going to list any projects that I personally find useful as it will undermine the main point of this article but I will say there are not that many working products out there so it should not be too difficult to find them. If you cannot be bothered to look for them i’m pretty sure certain projects will be looking for you, if you have any soul left to feed on.

Have a great day :)