Let’s dive into a fictional alternate history:
> ⚔️ “If Bitcoin was gunpowder in th
📜 The Premise
The year is 1300 AD.
The world runs on a feudal system: kings, knights, serfs, and the Church. Wealth is gold, silver, and land—all controlled by the elites.
But then… a mysterious invention spreads through underground scrolls:
₿ The Code of Nakamotus – A decentralized money that no king can debase.
🏰 The Early Adopters: “The Sovereign Few”
A group of monks, merchants, and outcast scholars begin mining Bitcoin using enchanted abacuses powered by proof-of-work rituals (perhaps symbolized by labor, prayers, or celestial alignment). They:
Create private peer-to-peer trade routes
Escape Church tithes and royal taxes
Store wealth outside castle vaults
The nobles laugh. “What good is invisible money?”
Until... villagers begin transacting with Bitcoin rather than silver coins. They no longer need permission from lords.
🔥 The Disruption
Barons and bishops grow uneasy.
The king’s treasury shrinks, unable to inflate supply or seize funds.
Armies are harder to raise without controlling money.
Castles lose power when peasants flee to new “Citadel Towns”—decentralized communities that run on Bitcoin.
These Citadels:
Operate like early Renaissance city-states
Trade openly, free from feudal lords
Attract thinkers, builders, and alchemists (aka coders)
⚔️ The Backlash
The elites ban Bitcoin scrolls.
Possession of a “wallet rune” becomes heresy.
The Church declares it a “demonic ledger”—because it tracks sin without confession.
But like gunpowder, the idea spreads faster than control. Smugglers hide QR codes in manuscripts. Miners move underground—literally—in cryptic catacombs powered by geothermal vents.
Wars break out:
The King’s Gold War: An attempt to wipe out the Bitcoin heretics.
The Ledger Crusades: Where bishops try to reclaim monetary control.
Yet for every node destroyed, two more pop up.
🏁 The New World Order
A century later, the world looks different:
Knights without gold serve no purpose
Castles are empty, abandoned as power shifts to decentralized trade routes
Citadel networks span continents, exchanging encrypted messages by raven and lantern relay
The old order still exists, but it’s now competing, not ruling
Bitcoin hasn’t replaced feudalism outright. But it’s fractured it. Permanently.
The question isn’t who rules, but who opts out.