We are witnessing it, all those values we learned as children are disintegrating minute by minute before our eyes as technological advances are taking control of the planet and the fiat model is inexorably collapsing before our eyes. All the ways of relating to each other are being modified to adapt to this new era, from religion, work, schedules, food to politics are being adapted to human behavior in the virtual world.
Apparently, the virtual world will be as real as the one we see when we wake up and open our eyes, so our presence in the intangible spaces will be as decisive as the one we develop in the daily life of the real world. This is how the world of cryptos poses a philosophy that goes beyond the simply economic, definitely establishes a position where the center of society is still the human being but this time has the tools that offer the opportunity to be more independent and decisive in making decisions.
The main quality of most cryptocurrencies is the fact that they are decentralized, i.e. there is no central power in the form of a monopoly or oligopoly that controls the destinies, at least in its issuing mechanism, of this virtual money. This feature attracts as much as the price and value of cryptocurrencies because it is certainly a form of freedom that many in the world have hardly experienced in our real life, regardless of whether we are located in a democratic country or the most brutal of dictatorships.
Evidently we all consider that the best political system is the democratic one, however for the vast majority this means voting every 4 or 5 years and being able to say what you want without being censored. Democracy without citizen empowerment is like a table with one leg missing, it is simply incomplete, therefore, it does not work. This is the reason why the fiduciary model has been so evil against the great part of the world's citizens subject to its influence, at the same time it has generated so much power to those who have the pleasure of manipulating the issuance of money.
Empowerment implies involvement in the planning, development and execution of all aspects of our lives, from the simplest to the most complex detail; it is a way of establishing the common good from individual conviction. Each individual is more than a vote, it is a thought that is involved in its own welfare to the extent that actively participates in the construction of mechanisms for the collective good. Obviously, such a society is impossible to form in the real world, as the powers that be would immediately accuse it of being terrorist or unpatriotic and obviously contrary to democracy.
This is where the advantage of the crypto world stands out, since anonymity generates freedom of creation and action. In a previous post I wrote about how cryptos, especially Bitcoin are positively transforming the society of Nigeria, at the same time that the central power wages a battle against the empowerment of its citizens by establishing bans on the possession, exchange and trade of decentralized virtual assets. Similarly, in spaces such as #hive and #Leofinance we witness how a community can be established in the virtual world where all individuals act in function of generating individual benefits through collective mechanisms, always having as a north the decentralization of all aspects that make up its ecosystem, generating in the members a sense of belonging similar to that felt for a country or for your homeland.
Evidently empowering individuals poses many challenges, starting with the technological one since the central powers keep under their control (for now), the ability to generate and finance important aspects of the modern world that is approaching such as 5G telecommunications onwards, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and quantum computing, the latter is configured as a threat to the integrity of blockchains, for that reason, to maintain the survival of the crypto world requires the power and collaboration of each of us to protect and consolidate this form of democracy from those who threaten to extinguish it.
