I’ve had a sense this was coming for some time. Public messaging still pushes the “everything is fine” narrative, but behind the scenes, governments are scrambling to manage the slow collapse of the fiat empire.

We’re entering the transition phase, and the US seems to be playing a strong “freedom-first” card, not out of altruism, but because first-mover advantage in a monetary reset is a massive lever.

That said, I don’t trust them, the state never gives up power willingly. They’ll likely use Tether to maintain dollar dominance, leveraging it as a de facto digital dollar with hard-asset optics. But I do believe Bitcoin’s core principles, decentralisation, scarcity, sovereignty, are strong enough to eventually pull the system back onto a more honest track.

I’m in the UK, and the situation here is so dysfunctional it’s hard to see where things are headed long term. Institutions are flailing, public trust is collapsing, and the system seems to be improvising just to hold itself together. Out of desperation to retain control, I suspect we’ll end up following the EU’s path, doubling down on surveillance, censorship, and monetary centralisation.

My dream is to build a small, self-sufficient smallholding in Italy, to step outside the madness and live with intention. But watching the direction of the EU gives me shivers. There’s a very real risk that the entire bloc slides deeper into the authoritarian model in the name of “stability.”

On the surface, sure, it’s orange man bad politics. But beneath that? This is a monetary arms race at the end of a fourth turning, a battle between centralised collapse and decentralised emergence. Between coercion and voluntary systems. Between fear and freedom.

As Orwell put it: “If there is hope, it lies with the proles.”

But the proles must first understand the root cause, only then can they begin to identify real solutions.

Nice to chat with you and get my thoughts out of my tangled brain. 👊🏻🤣

I’m going for a run, touch some grass and do a little fiat mining ⛏️