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John McAfee died about a year ago of a suspicious death if I remember correctly. The man was called an excentric, a criminal, a "pro-crypto shiller" and a guru, depending on who you might ask... The man was controversial, to say the least.
I stumbled upon this video a few hours ago and why it was funny to see him talking from a complete tin foiled room surrounded by antennas and claiming that he's hiding from the government because "he's dangerous" for the government due to his mission of waking people up from the 9-5 slavery.
As much as I disagreed with some of his deeds, he was right... The 9-5 system was designed to enslave, it was never about freedom, especially a financial one, and the American dream now seems to have been nothing more but a dream.
McAfee was considered a true crypto bull and I would call him the same as well, as he has most of the time tried to persuade people in getting into crypto for what such digital money has been invented in the first place and not that much for the gains...
Gains are not to be ignored, though. We talk about these every day here. However, blockchain should have deeper and stronger reverberations than what we've made it be, so far...
Vanguard and Blackrock are some of the biggest corporations in the world and they own large amounts of shares in so many relevant companies such as Apple, Facebook, Pfizer, and Tesla... But what has this to do with McAfee's tin foiled room and the slavery in which the society is drowning for quite a few decades?
roughly 60% of Americans say they're living paycheck to paycheck - a figure which hasn't budged much overall from last year's 55% despite inflation hitting 40-year highs. These corporations are designing much of what we're living and IMHO these are the ones who pushed these Americans, making six figures a year, in living paycheck to paycheck.
The American dream was not for the individual, it was designed for these corporations and for the centralization of funds, power, and influence that these have managed to build over years. Blackrock is entering crypto, it has been announced a few months ago, and I'm not excited about that, cuz I know what BlackRock is.
Blackrock is the epitome of centralization. Needless to say more than that.
Twitter confirms they received Elon Musk's $44 billion offer and intends to close the acquisition deal at $54.20 per share. What do you think it's going to happen, is Elon gonna turn Twitter into a Hive competitor making the bluebird app replicate some of the core principles blockchain technology was built on? Nope, it's designed to be centralized and it shall remain as such.
None of us will benefit from this acquisition. I don't know if Elon will, in any way aside from satisfying his ego of being in the center of attention and using his influence on "things that matter". The ones actually spinning the wheels are the trillionaires not showing their faces, not these circus billionaires and their fatty egos.
McDonald’s in Lugano, Switzerland now accepts $BTC & $USDT as payment methodsMastercard, one of the largest financial service providers in the world, is set to launch a new security tool on Tuesday to combat fraudulent transactionsRussia will allow international trade In Bitcoin & crypto in every industry!
The war on Bitcoin has begun
Well, isn't this one a soup of a post? I mean, even I who wrote it can't make much sense of it, but it has "a moral to the story" and the moral is that bad and evil are not simply black and white. Crypto is not necessarily entirely good or bad either... It's a great way of reaching financial freedom and fighting against totalitarian oppression(corporate centralization), but now that it's been mediatized, centralized fintech companies are into using it as well and it's becoming a hell of a tracing tool.
However, cards are not on the table yet and the games are on. “Trust is our(Mastercard's) business and with cryptocurrency more intertwined in our daily lives this is an exciting next step in our journey”. Well said. They have their journey and we have hours. Crypto, and implicitly blockchain, is now like that sharp kitchen knife, it depends on how each and one of us are using it.
The next decade will be a fun one and I bet no one can guess the outcome. Hold tight, dream on, buidl, and never give up.
Thanks for your attention,
