@Pantera 18 November 2025 edited

The Decaying System Of Trust And The Lost Solution

Banks demand your information, be it financial, personal, or deeply private. And when you refuse, they freeze your account without hesitation. They prepared a future where every aspect of your life is monitored and contained. A system designed to make you poor, or make sure you stay that way. You should learn how this world truly works, and why it was never in your favor. It doesn’t matter if you’re fourteen years old, broke, or not even part of the system yet. Even if you’re just trying to earn money online, sooner or later you’ll need a bank. And when that day comes, you’ll see the truth for yourself. The System Revealed You’ll wonder why no one warned you how vile this system can be. Why no one told you how suffocating it feels the moment you step into it. You’ll wonder why everything seems rigged against you and tilted toward the few who always knew what was coming. So you start digging. You observe, you think, you connect the pieces. You begin to understand how the gears turn beneath the surface. And just when you think you’ve figured it out, **snap**, everything changes. New rules. New restrictions. New walls, exactly where yesterday were exits. The path you found is sealed shut, before you can even step through it. Laws shift overnight, rewritten by the same people you trusted with your vote. And somehow, without a flicker of hesitation, they all turn against your best interests. What the hell you will wonder. How is this allowed all of the sudden. The politicians, the banks, the entire rigid architecture of “trust”, the one you were raised to believe in... ..suddenly turned against you. And the strangest part is how quickly it all happens. In a single day. For as long as I can remember, this is how the world works. I’ve seen the patterns, the sudden changes and tightening of rules that no one agreed to. Your odds of success? Almost zero. Unless you’re willing to risk far more than you can afford to lose. To challenge the decaying system of (dis)trust and render it obsolete, the clever, the desperate, the true visionaries created something new. A different kind of money. **Cryptocurrency.** But did Bitcoin turn out to be the solution, or just another layer in a world already stacked against you? Financial Freedom ≠ Banks (Crooks of the 21st Century) https://wumbo.net/symbols/not-equal/ Now, you might be getting the sense that I’m overreacting. Perhaps you feel that banks are friendly, lawful institutions that would never even consider harming you, that would never act against your interests. You think they will never block access to your funds—at least not without warning you first. **YOU — ARE — DEAD — WRONG.** From the simple teller to middle or upper management, they are all out to get you. If there is ever a time to start getting paranoid, this is it. Their ultimate plan is this: impoverish everyone. If you are not poor, they will make you so. The goal is to block wealth from reaching you, even (or especially) when you are 100% legitimate, and simply put your brain to work to acquire wealth. If you are an investor, they will find ways to screw you, and they will do it in the worst way possible. They will create traps, make you stumble, reject trades, and freeze your accounts while asking you to contact them. Bankers despise intelligence. They feel threatened by smart people. They want you to work for them as a slave for a pathetic wage instead. Being intelligent, you find ways to make money, legitimate and fast. And they absolutely hate you for that. If you are wealthy, they detest you amassing more wealth. The bank model depends entirely on shrinking every customer’s wealth: taking their cut, intermediating as much as possible, and leading them into costly mistakes. That’s how banks survive for decades, even centuries. 100-year banks. 200-year banks. Bankers make mistakes, and their banks collapse during recessions, only to be saved by governments with your money. The taxpayer’s money. An average person who somehow manages to make it big? They crush them. It’s all about taking a share of your wealth. Bankers, their employees, and the companies that surround them, they control your money. You are at their mercy. And the system demands your trust. We assume there are laws they are obliged to follow, laws that protect the public. And then… They change the laws. They stop playing by the rules, but pile a thousand burdens on us. Again, all of this is about money made through 100% legitimate methods. Money from hard work, from successfully running a business, from investing properly. Entirely lawful, nothing illegal. So, they actually wouldn’t mind at all if it were illegal money. Most of the time, the system launders that money anyway. And this is also where all these demands for personal and financial information make sense. If it’s not to catch illegal money, then why harass honest economic participants? They sell your information. They profit from it. When you deny them access, they lose money. Legally or illegally, they sell it and resell it, every month, every year. It doesn’t matter if they follow proper procedures or not. If you’ve ever unknowingly pressed that “Sure, go ahead and collect all my personal information” button on their e-banking website… well, that's all they ever needed. That’s information from millions of individuals, constantly changing. To profit from it, they have to constantly update and correct your private and financial details. Where do they sell it? Maybe to marketing firms, but the reality is darker. Your information has existed on the deepest corners of the web for decades. Every bank card, every number, names, addresses. Forming databases with information you could never imagine. Every scammer can access your cards and details, as they are all sold on the dark web. Maybe they don’t have PINs, but it doesn’t matter: money at the bank is always at risk. You may never have used your card online, yet you still get calls about someone trying to transact from across the world. Usually, banks instantly reject these transactions and don’t even notify you anymore. And still, despite all their supposed efforts, credit card fraud losses steadily increase.

Banks consider legal acquisition of wealth their biggest threat. They were meant to be nothing more than tools, provide liquidity to help individuals and companies build prosperity. But instead of forming solid relationships, they shatter the trust they demanded, and treat their customers with contempt. They rewrite their own rules on a whim, and when confronted, their employees hide behind references to “laws” and “regulations” they themselves cannot name. You’ve all heard these excuses. You’ve all heard those vague, scripted lines about mysterious laws. Laws they’ve never read and probably wouldn’t understand if they had. They will hide behind laws and regulations that many even exist. And when these laws do exist, they most likely interpret them far beyond what they are meant to suggest. In this world, banks have become the most unproductive entities in society, feeding off the productive ones. Their apps malfunction, their updates are even more broken, their payment systems constantly fail, they invent absurd excuses to block funds and cancel transactions. And again. Even if that has never happened to you, it will. They will suspend your account. Your money will be frozen. You won't get any warning. They won't give you the option or chance to withdraw your funds. They will impose the most wicked decisions without ever notifying you. Until you submit to their unreasonable demands, until you hand over every detail of your personal and financial life, you will be treated like garbage, like a lowlife thief. Only then, maybe much later, they might allow you access to your own funds. Or perhaps only a fragment of them. They won't allow you to escape poverty or achieve any of your dreams. They loathe individuals who outperform the rest, and the moment you do, they will strip you of everything you’ve earned. They also hate wealthy individuals, those that won't instantly comply, those unwilling paying unreasonably high rates for low quality services. The smart ones. And they have the means to make such people suffer. They can cut off their access, strangle their finances, reduce their wealth. So, you've worked hard for a decade, and managed to build some wealth. Maybe you made amazing investments, or your job as an AI developer pays well. Maybe your business grew profitable fast. Maybe you sold that business for millions. Maybe luck finally favored you. Whatever happened, you are rich, on or close enough. You have cash in the bank, stocks in the bank trading app, investments at the banks fund, real estate tied to business loans, gold in the bank vaults, Bitcoin keys locked away in the same vaults. And then you understand why it becomes so difficult to sustain that wealth the moment you realize **you don’t control any of it.** The banks control not just your money, but everything you think you own. They take a slice of everything, and leave you wondering why your investments underperform. Real estate is included, even when it wasn’t meant as collateral. It is included any time you borrow money. Banks can retroactively secure loans with collateral, assets you own, and they can liquidate anything you have. Any account can freeze and money that exists or gets deposited in the future can be confiscated. You will be forced to bleed even more to fight them, since now you have to pay for legal services. The legal system will deliver the final blow. By then, you’ve already lost. At best, your expensive lawyers might stop the harassment and restore partial access to your funds. But even if you win the case, you don't get any compensation. You won’t get justice. You don't get anything for being treated unfairly. So, you are now less wealthy, most likely, entirely broke. In our world, this is not a conspiracy theory. It is common practice. This is not the exception but the architecture. Sooner or later, you will get cut out of the financial system within seconds, and only then will you understand this was never fiction. Is there a solution? — Cryptocurrency? Satoshi gave us a solution. One that can still work, or could have worked. But after 15 years, has it really become that solution? **Let’s start with the disadvantages.** I don’t really know if Bitcoin (BTC) or Bitcoin Cash is the one, or Monero, or ZCash, or Dogecoin, or anything else. If I were certain there was a single solution in crypto, all of my money would be in that particular cryptocurrency. **Bitcoin Cash** is still the one I consider having better odds of achieving a P2P economy of moderate scale. As long as that happens, as long as people pay with Bitcoin Cash for P2P purchases, the odds of success increase. See, here are some core issues that hold me (and many more) back, and which are most likely too difficult for cryptocurrencies to overcome. We still have to rely on trust. Trust in certain people, to assure us it’s all fine. We don’t know anything about code, we don’t know how to audit it. We rely on others for that. We have to trust the developers did their job perfectly, and that they didn’t randomly insert some **inflation bug** into the code with a new update. Trust is still required, but can be easily broken, and often is. We also have to overcome extreme price volatility. It’s uncomfortable and nerve-wracking to sustain large portions of our net worth in extremely volatile digital assets. This resembles gambling, and I don’t really enjoy gambling. I’ve been doing this for close to nine years now, and most of the time I’m watching price charts, trying to spot the signs of bull and bear markets. And I’m not even that successful at profiting in ways that would allow me to escape the rat race. My sole plan is simply not to lose 80% of the value I hold. HODL requires blocking almost all brain activity except the basics. I don’t do drugs, so HODL is impossible for me, therefore BTC was never going to be my thing. A P2P economy would have been empowering everyone instead, but that message is now not receiving attention. Most of the time, it’s all gambling. An 80% decline hurts. It hurts a lot. And it happens roughly every two years. McDonald’s witnessed surges in job applications in **2014–2015**, **2018–2019**, and **2022–2023**. And so it will happen again. 2026–2027 is approaching. I wouldn’t expect this time to be different. Anyone carefully observing the charts would know when it’s time to pack up and leave. Although, again, I can always be wrong, so don’t consider this to be trading advice. I've been calling for a 2025 bear market since April, but crypto shows resilience. Funds unexpectedly buy dips and sustain the market at (what I consider to be) extremely high valuations. But maybe (Micro)Strategy’s model is a fraud and doomed to collapse, as Peter Schiff suggested. In that case, things could go wrong at the worst possible time. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-schiff-strategy-entire-business-114715567.html

I happen to watch charts a lot and read news. In the constant war of information, we often overlook the small but crucial details but sometimes I do listen to the alarms coming from my subconscious. Just like that time a month ago, when BTC was sitting at $125,000 and I posted the cycle repeat chart on YouTube. Not many saw it, it got only 3 likes (and one of them mine). But just like Cassandra in ancient Greek lore, accurate predictions meant nothing to those who refused to listen. https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxnRPYIYUYj1a2x_Wx4bBgCHJuJhr-oMdS ****dwm27-26**** is my most loyal follower, and I have to thank him for all his comments and likes on my videos. I don’t know who he is or if he goes by other aliases, but he’s always there, supporting me and giving me hope to keep creating content. Thanks, buddy. Cryptocurrencies. Some things make sense, but most don’t. Everything is driven by greed. Projects with high hopes collapse into dust, losing 99% of their value. I had read the whitepaper since June 2017. It was recommended by Andreas Antonopoulos, saying this is where everyone has to begin. I did not understood the technical information in it immediately, but after reading it for the first time, I immediately felt a like-minded individual had created something amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-vOfPCA-k Although when I got into Bitcoin, everything had already changed. Bitcoin, the very system designed to fight the old system was hijacked, and it wasn’t even difficult. They paid a few developers, funded a startup to take over the developments of the project, severely distorted the vision, stagnated it, choked it, and transformed the ideals of permissionless P2P cash with an asset for institutions to gamble on. Bitcoin wasn’t meant for banks to custody. It was meant for everyone to use, to taste this particular kind of freedom: financial freedom. After that first taste, things start to become much clearer.

*(Jesse Powell)* The whitepaper explains Bitcoin perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-vOfPCA-k I vividly remember Jesse Powell, ex-Kraken CEO and founder, expressing his surprise at the rise of custodian wallets in 2019 during a YouTube discussion. He always had the right approach and envisioned a true P2P economy, even going so far as to advise people not to trust any exchange including his own, but to buy and withdraw immediately to their personal wallets. This is the first step: **withdraw**. The next step: **actually use the P2P economy**. Without that, there is no real purpose, no vision, no future. The centralization of wallets was one of the attacks, as the corrupt financial system continued dismantling Bitcoin’s disruptive potential. We watched the rise of custodian Lightning Network wallets, no different from the “system of trust” Bitcoin was designed to replace. Especially during the 2021–2023 push on Lightning, centralization surged and the actual potential was disregarded. Bitcoin had retracted, effectively de-evolving into a weaker, PayPal-like version of its former powerful self. Bitcoin is new money and it was created for all people. It was built for both the wealthy **and** for those living on less than $2 per day. The Strategic Advantage Of Cryptocurrency Despite everything, despite the price volatility, the bear markets, the FOMO, the shills, the YouTubers with their mouths open in shock on every thumbnail, the vile scams and disgusting Ponzi schemes, the way Tether and Bitfinex narrowly avoided collapse, the useless pumped-up tokens, the trading addicts, the Ponzi promoters, the paid podcasters, the slurs, the personal attacks, the irrelevant and bankrupt ideologies that started infesting this and every other online space, despite the hijackings... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETp7oyzDbmo ..despite all that and even more negatives .. .. with cryptocurrencies you at least **GET A SENSE OF FREEDOM**, and probably the best aspect of it, **FINANCIAL FREEDOM**. No. This is not about having more fiat money at your bank. We’ve explored this throughout the story: banks control the old money. Being rich doesn’t grant you financial freedom. You are just constantly obliged to follow dirty tricks and new unpredictable regulations. With legacy finance, you are in constant danger, without even doing anything wrong. You could be a scientist, a doctor, or even a college dean, and suddenly discover you can’t pay for your ticket at the airport because your bank froze your account. And you will be stranded for hours, or perhaps forced to spend a day or two in a hotel while everything gets sorted. You’ll waste precious time and energy proving your identity, politely begging the bank for access to your money, all because they arbitrarily cut you out of the system. Financial freedom doesn’t exist when your funds can be frozen at any moment. Financial freedom means being able to transact with anyone, anywhere, at any time without anyone having the power to block your transactions, freeze your funds, or confiscate them. Once you taste that freedom, the legacy financial system of trust collapses right in front of your eyes. You witness the better side of money: **independent, sovereign, powerful**. As the veil of legacy finance drops, everything that came before looks ridiculous, annoying, anachronistic, corrupt. The use of cryptocurrency in commerce is, in many ways, the nail in the coffin for the banks. Sure, you might not be able to use Bitcoin (BTC) for everything anymore, but alternatives exist, and they work well. Conclusion ***We are bringing disruption to the very fundamentals of finance by challenging the status quo and promoting the true essence of peer-to-peer electronic Cash with low fees and near-instant transactions.*** ***We aim to create a borderless and permissionless economy where everyone can participate and benefit, regardless of location or socioeconomic background.*** ***We believe that by empowering individuals with control over their own finances, we can create a more equitable and transparent financial system for all.*** (Quote from the epilogue of my video "The Dark Side Of Bitcoin".) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7s6T12k2jA Bitcoin Cash is something I’ve long advocated for, not just online, but in private, in conversations with people who don’t yet understand what this is all about and want to listen. When asked which cryptocurrencies I consider worthwhile, I can’t express enough my disgust at what BTC has become, while explaining how Bitcoin Cash remains the true servant of Satoshi’s whitepaper. It’s not just Bitcoin Cash alone that works well, but for me, it’s the best. For the Monero community, for example, they are the best. It’s somewhat subjective, of course, but perhaps many more cryptocurrencies will get a chance and hopefully, one will truly succeed. Bitcoin Cash, Monero, ZCash, and actually many others have strong potential to succeed as permissionless and private digital cash. This kind of competition is healthy and will likely deliver meaningful results in the future. The Whitepaper, by Satoshi Nakamoto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-vOfPCA-k *(Made this as a tribute to Satoshi Nakamoto. 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