ECONOMIC HORROR BITCOIN VERSION
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Economic horror is not a phrase intended to shock; it is an accurate description of the times we are living through. The fiat system is not a simple monetary structure; it is a predatory machine that infiltrates every aspect of our lives. Everything is designed to maintain the illusion of a functioning economy, when in fact it is nothing more than a vast construction of debt accumulated over several generations. This illusion has colonized the collective imagination to the point where the majority still believe that money is born from wealth, when in fact it is now born from debt and easy credit. The currency we use is nothing more than a perpetual debt token, devoid of substance, fueled by the illusory promise that the state and the banks will be able to manage the chaos they themselves have engendered. Economic horror is the normalization of this daily lie.
The fiat system presents itself as neutral and scientific, but in reality it is nothing more than an instrument of social control. Behind every printed bill, behind every line of credit, there is a form of servitude that goes unnamed. The citizen believes he has a salary, savings, a pension, but all of this dissolves over time because the printing press never stops. Inflation is the silent cancer of society, an invisible tax that hits hardest those who cannot afford to protect themselves. The rich invest their assets in real estate, art, or shell companies; the poor see their savings melt away and their wages devalued. It is a mechanism of permanent plunder, an invisible drain on the real value produced by human labor.
One only has to look at recent history to understand that the collapse of fiat is not a distant possibility but a constant repetition. Weimar Germany saw its economy explode when banknotes outnumbered real products. Zimbabwe transformed its dollar into official toilet paper. Argentina destroyed the confidence of its citizens with repeated devaluations, turning savings to dust overnight. Turkey has sunk into a spiral where salaries are paid in currency that already loses value before it is even cashed. In each of these cases, the authorities promised that everything was under control, that the situation would improve. In each of these cases, citizens paid a high price. And today, the same mechanisms are in place on a global scale. The dollar, the euro, the yen—all these currencies are no exception. The economic horror is living in a world where trust is constantly betrayed, but where we pretend to believe that the guardians of the system know what they are doing.
The most perverse lie of fiat is to make people believe that debt is an inexhaustible resource. States are going into unlimited debt, banks are lending sums they don't have, and the money supply is exploding. This process is disguised behind clever graphs, manipulated interest rates, and technocratic rhetoric, but the reality is simple: we are living beyond our means by confiscating the means of future generations. Every child is born already in debt, every household lives under the yoke of a tax system that no longer finances services but the survival of a bureaucratic monster. The fiat economy is not an economy; it is an organized bloodletting, a silent war waged against the population by those who claim to govern them.
But since 2009, a crack has appeared in this wall of lies. Bitcoin has reminded us of a truth the system had erased: money can exist without debt, without inflation, without centralized control. Bitcoin is a currency that cannot be decreed, printed, or improvised. It relies on a transparent architecture where every rule is written into code and validated by the network. It is limited to 21 million units, which means that for the first time since gold, a currency escapes the corruption of unlimited printing. Where fiat requires blind trust, Bitcoin relies on permanent verification. Where fiat centralizes power, Bitcoin distributes it. Where fiat always promises and always disappoints, Bitcoin promises nothing other than what it actually is. It is this contrast that makes it a structural alternative, not a speculative product.
A salary paid in Bitcoin does not depreciate over time. A teacher, a worker, a doctor can work knowing that their energy converted into currency will retain its value even after ten or twenty years. Savings regain meaning. With fiat, it is absurd to keep your money in a bank account because it loses some of its purchasing power every year. With Bitcoin, saving becomes a virtue again, a natural discipline that allows you to prepare for the future. Families are no longer forced to rush into immediate consumption for fear of devaluation. They can plan for the long term, pass on stable value to their children, and build sustainable projects.
Trade is also being transformed. A payment is a direct transfer between two individuals, validated by the network, without a trusted third party. This means that systemic fraud disappears, transaction costs plummet, and monetary corruption becomes technically impossible. A small business no longer needs to beg a bank for an account or a line of credit; it can operate on Bitcoin and build its cash flow without fear of a banker freezing its funds or dictating its terms. This is a massive rebalancing of economic power toward those who actually produce.
States, for their part, are losing their most formidable weapon: money printing. Today, a government can finance war, repression, or its bureaucratic waste simply by creating money ex nihilo. With Bitcoin, this privilege disappears. States will have to raise visible taxes, which will force them to be directly accountable to citizens. Institutional parasitism, which thrives on invisible inflation, will be exposed. Power structures will have to shrink, refocus on real missions, because they will no longer be able to hide behind infinite debt. It is a silent political revolution, because control of money is the ultimate control of populations.
Central banks no longer have a role. They cannot manipulate the key rate of a currency that does not require their validation. They cannot play arsonist firefighters by injecting liquidity after provoking a crisis. The cycle of debt and inflation is broken. Markets are returning to an organic logic, based on real supply and demand. Individuals are regaining control of their finances and no longer have to fear that their money will be diluted to save the mistakes of the powerful. This is a collapse of institutionalized lies, replaced by mathematical clarity.
Trust, finally, no longer rests on faces or institutions, but on code, on transparency, on mutual verification. For centuries, we had to trust kings, banks, states, and each time this trust was betrayed. Now it is distributed, inscribed in an architecture that cannot be corrupted by empty promises. This is the culmination of what we can call the "architecture of trust," a society that no longer needs to take one's word for it but can constantly verify it. This shift takes us out of economic horror, because it destroys the heart of the fiat system: the imposed lie.
The fiat system is doomed. It will die the same way all other debt currencies do, in a final hyperinflation or a controlled implosion. The only question is how many lives will be ruined before that death. Bitcoin, on the other hand, isn't waiting for the end of fiat to exist. It's already growing, it's already spreading, it's already inspiring millions of individuals to take back control of their value. The economic horror won't disappear overnight, but its end is inevitable. And in this ruined world, an alternative already exists. It's called Bitcoin, and it carries with it the end of the economic horror.
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