So as a disclaimer: I invested in different cryptos and I love the idea of decentralized currency as well as all the other use cases, that are possible with blockchain technology. But with the unreal fast growth rate in the last few month I put some more thoughts and research into it. So get your tinfoil hat out, buckle up your unicorn and off we ride right into the rabbit hole!
Let's start in the year 1988, when The Economist, the Rothschild owned magazine, publicised the infamous cover with the headline "Get ready for a world currency [by 2018]".
What is interesting about this is:
The cover looks like a Phoenix rising out of the burning Dollar. Also the coin around its neck is called "10 Phoenix". Satoshi, the smallest unit of Bitcoin, can - besides other meanings - be an unusual male name. Bravenewcoin.com writes: "Japanese in heritage, it has many definitions that allude to change. It represents ‘born from the ashes like a phoenix’ or ‘clear thought’, ‘witty’ or ‘wise’". Born from the ashes like a Phoenix... interesting right?
So this cover was published in 1988.
Fast forward 10 years to 1998. En.bitcoin.it writes: "In 1998 Wei Dai published a description of an anonymous, distributed electronic cash system which he called 'b-money'. Around the same time, Nick Szabo created 'Bit gold'. Like Bitcoin, Bit gold was a currency system where users would compete to solve a proof of work function, with solutions being cryptographically chained together and published via a distributed property title registry. A variant of Bit gold, called Reusable Proofs of Work, was implemented by Hal Finney".
Fast forward another 10 years to 2008. Wikipedia writes: "On 18 August 2008, the domain name bitcoin.org was registered. Later that year on October 31st, a link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was posted to a cryptography mailing list."
In the following year, 2009, the first coins were created.
So will 2018 be the year of a world currency? All it takes is a major crash of the current system and after the initial chaos people will take whatever works to stop this chaos.
So here we have a timeline of 30 years with every 10 years a milestone. Sounds like it was planed all along, no?
Please tell me why this is bollocks and Bitcoin/blockchain based currency was not planed 30 years ago by our elites, but instead was created from the people for the people -> in the comment section below.
Have a nice day.