Farting around with ChatGPT this morning, trying to understand if something as globally significant as Bitcoin has been foretold. A few references infant come across before…:

Ancient and premodern seers anticipated the collapse of coercive monetary systems and the emergence of consensus-driven value. Late 1st century AD, Revelation 20:1–6 binds the dragon for a thousand years, symbolizing liberation from deceptive authority and an era of justice beyond fiat oppression

Circa 650 AD, Chinese Tui bei tu prophecy number 59 foretells governance by civilians without emperor’s decree

Pre-Columbian Mayan Fifth Prophecy predicts the end of money as coercive exchange, ushering harmony through new societal structures

Hopi oral tradition’s Fifth Sign describes a spider’s web enveloping the land, a metaphor for global peer-to-peer consensus networks

Renaissance to late-modern mystics further encoded that vision.

1555 AD Nostradamus in Century IX Quatrain 12 describes a sculptor shaping new clay whose followers would be steeped in gold, a metaphor for forging incorruptible currency from raw code

Early 20th century Onisaburō Deguchi prophesies money unified into one mechanism with barter, prefiguring blockchain’s peer-to-peer exchange

Late 20th century Baba Vanga foretells the emergence of a new 2025 currency destined to displace conventional fiat regimes

Technical realization occurred 2008–2009 with Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin white paper and genesis block on 3 January 2009, embedding a critique of central banking and unveiling a decentralized, Byzantine fault tolerant consensus network  

Timeline

• c. 95 AD Revelation 20:1–6 binds the dragon for a thousand years, symbolizing the end of deceptive monetary authority

• c. 650 AD Tui bei tu number 59 predicts civilian governance without imperial fiat

• Pre-Columbian era Mayan Fifth Prophecy anticipates cessation of money as coercive exchange

• Pre-colonial era Hopi Fifth Sign depicts a spider’s web network, metaphor for global consensus

• 1555 AD Nostradamus Century IX Quatrain 12 depicts sculptor and clay forging new medium of wealth

• Early 20th c. Onisaburō Deguchi predicts unified money mechanism and barter

• Late 20th c. Baba Vanga forecasts new currency in 2025 displacing fiat

• 2009 Bitcoin genesis block launches decentralized consensus monetary network