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      "body": "<center><h3>The Evolution of Man</h3></center>\n\n<center>(https://img1.steemit.com/450x450/https://steemitimages.com/DQmWzX1zmvWFcdutoiAuqzKae223MLMC4AhsFT158BJnVHA/brain_blood_flow_chart.jpg)</center>\n\nMankind is currently undergoing the biggest evolutionary leap our species has ever seen.  While still largely unacknowledged, this is all due to a highly contentious, yet still relatively unknown or, at best, misunderstood,  technology which has now been in existence for nearly 9 years.  This post is the first in a multi-part series that I will be posting on this subject in the coming weeks.  With it, I will have a little fun and throw out some slightly wild ideas. They're not important to the larger message, but they provide some context for what's to come. \n\n<h3>A Brief History of Bitcoin</h3>\n\n<div class=\"pull-right\">\nhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nintchdbpict000306226097.jpg?strip=all&w=960\n</div>\n\nIn this most recent attempt at consolidating and providing clarity to several thoughts that I've had brewing in my head for months, I recognize that it is crucial that I speak to an informed audience.  In order to do so, I must provide a brief history of one of the most astounding inventions that mankind has ever created.\n\nTo keep it short, the following is what you must know:\n\n1.  On Oct 31st, 2008, an unidentified person going only by the moniker Satoshi Nakamoto released an invention to the world.\n\n2.  The name of the invention was Bitcoin and the release included the open source code which made his invention instantly available to the entire world.\n\n3.  The concept of Bitcoin is simple on the surface but extremely complex at its roots.\n\ta.  At its simplest, Bitcoin is a ledger of information not much different than that which any traditional banking institution or accounting system relies upon.\n\tb.  At its roots, however, Bitcoin is as complex as the entirety of all of mankind.\n\n4.  Bitcoin is inherently unstoppable.  It is a virus in the wild whose spread could only be prolonged by a complete and forceful shutdown of the entire global Internet and every last bit of its infrastructure - something which is impossible to do short of a catastrophic global catastrophe of existential proportions.\n\n\n<h3>A Conspiracy at Large</h3>\n\n<div class=\"pull-right\">\nhttps://steemitimages.com/DQmZb3XR8kJ2SjW4u9oxduS9jPptEdcN6aDziRGp6TLZTeJ/illuminati-1.jpg\n</div>\n\nWhile we all think we know the history of Satoshi Nakamoto releasing his Bitcoin whitepaper and source code to the world, we must take a step back and try to see the bigger picture for what it is.  Namely, **Satoshi Nakamoto didn't simply release a Bitcoin white paper out of the blue one day.** That's simply all the world knows at a public level.\n\nInstead, I propose that Satoshi Nakamoto was a very prominent player on the global stage **before** he released his amazing invention and that he had a very good idea of some of the resulting ramifications it would bring.  As a result, he intentionally obscured his real identity for any number of plausible reasons.  \n\nThe most obvious reason for this secrecy would be due to fear of reprisal from shadow forces.  You may have heard of the [shadow banking system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banking_system), but keep in mind here that they're simply one faction of a larger and more formidable body.\n\nIn the broadest sense, global shadow forces consist of any person or entity who, out of view of the public eye and without audit, accountability or repercussion, uses their existing wealth or other capital in order to secretly manipulate entire swaths of society.  \n\nIn the world of public service (government), this would be referred to as corruption.  In the banking industry, this would be shadow banking that is beyond the realm of institutional audit and accountability.  There may also exist private citizens, telecom and other technology industry leaders, and more who participate in this realm.  Anyone with the proper clout and leverage can contribute to this hidden sector of society, but it's the wealthiest and most influential being discussed here.\n\n\n\n<h3>Networks of Influence</h3>\n\n<div class=\"pull-right\">\nhttps://steemitimages.com/DQmbekV5ZvZ2tdYY1z7AwaQa12PEmF45PNhHgoY53ZTzWdo/bilderbergsecretmeetingsnewspaper-1.jpg\n</div>\n\nThe individual components of this shadow society could be broadly categorized into several different flavors: \n\n1.  Public - These are individuals such as heads of states and heads of industries.  These people exist under our noses but we can't provably recognize them (or hold them accountable) for who they inherently are and what they do.  In general, they're broadly accepted by society.\n\n2.  Private - These are any random individuals in society.  They're not hidden from the world, they're simply not recognizable names to the average citizen.  These people also exist under our noses but we don't necessarily have a record of them trying to influence policy or affairs for their own gains.\n\n3.  Public Private - These are a combination of the two listed above, but they're comprised of only those that are both the most powerful and the most corruptible.    \n</br> In other words, some public officials only sell their snake oil directly to the public - we're well aware of their positions but they enjoy broad enough popularity to keep getting elected and safeguard themselves from prosecution - while others are far worse actors behind the scenes for their own personal gains.  Likewise, lots of private people can be wealthy, but not all of them are inherently corruptible, deceptive and self-serving to the detriment of larger society.   </br>   \n<br>The worst of the worst of the first two groups, working in tandem for their own benefits over society's, is the basis for this group.</br>\n\n4.  Private Private - These are the complete unknowns.  No entity that they work with knows their real identity, only that the person they're working with yields exceptional wealth, power, and/or influence.  It could be any of the first three types that one is working with or it could be someone who doesn't exist anywhere on paper around the world - an extremely powerful \"ghost\", if you will.\n\nIn summary, there are certain people who exist whom are massively wealthy, powerful and influential; they are able to exert a lot of pressure on anyone in society, be it economic, political, physical, or otherwise, in order to massively manipulate global events and policies.  The world at large is generally unaware of these influential people.  We may have suspicion around several of our publicly elected leaders and their staff, but we have little or no awareness or accountability for the massive amount of corruption and deception that permeate our entire society.\n\nSatoshi Nakamoto, as we know him, is amongst these ranks.  I contend this is so **not only because of his Bitcoin creation**, but because he was amongst them **before he ever released Bitcoin to the world**.  \n\n\n\n<h3>Creating A Global Crisis</h3>\n\n<div class=\"pull-right\">\nhttps://steemitimages.com/DQmPjaT3r93Xf7phvwwA6iN9eBiAN1vNiv1Mp6zL8MTsfsH/image.png\n</div>\n\nWith these thoughts in mind, I believe that **Satoshi Nakamoto is directly _responsible_ for the 2008 global financial meltdown.**\n\nNakamoto's global introduction of Bitcoin was on the heels of the [largest financial crisis in modern history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008).  Prior to then, many individuals and coalitions, such as E-Gold and Liberty Reserve, had attempted to create a new type of banking system on the relatively young information super highway.  They had all been subjected to massive, crippling regulation and attacks which led to their downfalls.  And while the forces that those new digital currencies fought against are relatively known and acknowledged, what is lesser acknowledged in Western society are the forces that non-Western societies face when attempting to compete on the global stage.\n\nNakamoto, being wholly aware of this, came up with a design that **could not be shut down**, a design that could not be hacked and destroyed despite attempts by the wealthiest and most powerful forces in the world.\n\nMy working theory is that Nakamoto, though whatever channels he may have had available to him, attempted to lean **hard** on individuals involved in the shadow banking industry.  He undoubtedly knew that the current system was broken, but fixing it entailed going against the most powerful shadow forces in the history of mankind.\n\nIn essence, what he would be asking for, demanding, is the resignation of those individuals from their positions of massive, ungoverned, unaccountable power; the unveiling of the scam to all of the world.  This would not have gone unnoticed throughout society, however, and is obviously not something that those elites of the world would easily give up.  \n\n\n\n<h3>Tipping Point</h3>\n\n<div class=\"pull-right\">\nhttps://steemitimages.com/DQmcikNW8LTwJDNE9TFhtHZAtufAKAUBDFM2vEmEB9XkqhZ/kCgXmz1K.png\n</div>\n\nPerhaps no one other than Nakamoto himself could verify these exact thoughts, go into detail on motives and incentives, or disclose how long he had attempted to negotiate with these shadow forces across the world.  It may have been two days or it may have been two decades.  However, with his principled stance and the influence afforded to him as a participating member of the global shadow forces [i.e.  someone that could not easily be censored, influenced, or silenced], he no doubt had been fighting these corrupt factions for several years, if not decades.\n\nEventually, as a means of last resort, he informed key individuals in this group of his creation, of what he would be releasing to the world.  If they would not give it up willingly, he would take it from them.  \n\n**This was a checkmate position from which there was no escape**.\n\n\n\n<h3>Checkmate</h3>\n\n<div class=\"pull-right\">\nhttps://steemitimages.com/DQmYUfkjhsFzENAuTUMRKHYDpu4aFYyFfgTzf7P6hRJEnXg/image.png\n</div>\n\nAs full realization of the potential ramifications of this new technology set in, those shadow bankers [actually initiated the global financial crisis on their own](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008#Boom_and_collapse_of_the_shadow_banking_system).  That is, as the writing on the wall began to appear, these individuals defaulted into a series of steps designed to protect their own cumulative wealth and power.  These events, initiated out of fear and greed, ultimately needed to be accounted for somewhere.  Thus far, the history books will tell us that the Lehman Brothers precipitated the crash.\n\n[However, no one has ever been held accountable for it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers#Ongoing_litigation)\n\nThe citizens of the world bore the pain of this massive amount of corruption and, in one fell swoop, Nakamoto kicked off the beginning of the end for any and all of those people who rise above traditional governance in the finance and global economics industries.  **He beat them at their own game.** \n\nIn deceiving this group of users into causing the crash of the system they'd built, he **used their own greed and financial mismanagement against them** as an opportunity to unveil his mathematically perfect creation to the world.\n\nNakamoto had succeeded in **completely breaking** a power structure which has been inherent not only in the modern world, but throughout all of mankind's existence.  The power enjoyed by that shadow government, one which has immensely unfathomable power and wealth in today's world, has been shattered.\n\nWith the advent of a decentralized system of currency, a currency that is incapable of falling victim to centralized institutions with anything other than the full, transparent knowledge and consent of it's population of users, Nakamoto has introduced a possibility to our species which we've never before been able to experience.\n\nNakamoto, whether known to him or not, is directly responsible for kickstarting the most significant period of human evolution that our species will ever know.\n\n\n\n<h3>A New Paradigm</h3>\n\n<div class=\"pull-right\">\nhttps://steemitimages.com/DQmRxWa21Mgt2QpBABvtCdJ93cFCDhzsyXcqUwv56eks5Xx/new-paradigm-ahead.jpg\n</div>\n\nTo wrap this up, I would like to assert my belief that this event will, to future generations of man (or what we eventually become), be seen as the genesis moment of the single biggest leap in mankind's evolutionary history in millennia.  This leap will not happen overnight, but the eventual ramifications of the creation and release of this technology will be viewed on par with the creation and discovery of agriculture, math, and language.  It will be recognized as **that significant** of an evolutionary leap when the dust finally settles some years or generations down the line.\n\nWould you try for a moment to imagine how significant those changes were to all of mankind?  Do you think that mankind was even able to **fathom** the concept of math or language at any time in its existence prior to the period when they were created and began to proliferate around the world?  Those things would have been **literally unimaginable**, because our brains were simply too elementary to comprehend them.  \n\nNone of those technologies took root across the globe overnight.  In fact, they took thousands of years to spread to mankind and become ingrained in who we are as a species.  But they grew.  As a species, we passed this type of knowledge on through the generations.  Our ability and will to adapt to these changes is a magnificent achievement, one that we only have knowledge of ever happening **once**, to a single species, in the entire universe.\n\nHowever, today's new paradigm will not take nearly as long to permeate our species as those in our distant history.  In the timeline of man, this shift will take place overnight, in the relative blink of an eye.  \n\nWe are (and have been) actively living through this evolutionary epoch **right now**, and most people aren't even aware that it's going on.  In fact, I have gone on the record many times stating my belief that mankind will see **massive** societal evolution and changes resulting from this within the next 5-8 years.  \n\nThese changes will be so incredible, they are so unimaginably foreign to us as a species right now, that people today are barely, if at all, even able to fathom what it will mean for us.\n\n* Wars?  Gone.  Never again will we so violently destroy our own species.\n* Corruption?  Gone.  Not overnight, but this is the beginning of rooting heritable corruption out of society.\n* A Utopia of abundance and harmony?  Soon, very soon, along with unimaginable increases to our quality of life, increases that are likely only rivaled by the advancements mankind saw following the invention of agriculture, the discovery of math, and the realization of spoken language.  A quality so great that future generations will wonder how humanity ever survived prior to this ultimate period of enlightenment which we're going through.    \n\nTo truly break down these variables and properly convey them at a foundational level, several pages, or perhaps even chapters of a book, would need to be written before they could communicated in a meaningful and impactful way.  \n\nI'll leave that for another day but, rest assured, this technology is **massive beyond comprehension** and I look forward to seeing it grow and advance.  \n\nBe sure to buckle up and hang on.  This will be a wild ride with an eventual great outcome, but the worst bumps are likely yet to come!",
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      "body": "<html>\n<p><strong>The Players</strong></p>\n<p>What if I told you that you couldn't really do what you wanted in life, that you've never really been given much choice in the matter? Would you believe me? Probably not, for the most part, because you tend to make decisions on a day to day basis for your own self, instead of being told what to do. Or at least you think you do.</p>\n<p>But the fact of the matter is that the world we live in is littered with powerful entities - people, companies, governments, and more - that directly or indirectly restrict how we live and what we're able to do on a day by day basis. Literally. These entities surround us and they all have some degree of impact on the practical choices we're able to make throughout life. This isn't a result of malicious entities - though they do exist out there for sure. Some of those entities are extremely powerful, like the US government, and some are only slightly powerful, such as your cable company or car insurance company.</p>\n<p>Now, before you get the wrong impression, I want to clarify that this isn't an argument that any of those entities are good or bad or anywhere in between. Rather, the goal is to establish the players which have the most to lose during this next phase of human history. And in the process, we'll look at you - the entire rest of the human population - as we begin to understand who has the most to gain during this next phase.</p>\n<p>Ok, so at this point we've listed governments and cable companies and insurance companies. But what else? Who else? How about the entertainment industry, the hospitality industry, or the travel industry? And banks? Wooooo... banks are a doozy for this discussion! These are the types of entities that we will be thinking about during this journey. Entire industries that operate across the world. Because, whether we realize it or not, every single one of us is operating in and affected by the massive, global economy that now engulfs Earth.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><strong>The Problem</strong></p>\n<p>When we think of the above companies and entities, there should be at least a few traits that stick out for every single one of them, regardless of their size or function:</p>\n<p>1. <em><strong>These entities all operate on consolidated power</strong></em></p>\n<p>a. What gives any entity its power? Its network, of course. To paraphrase Metcalfe's Law: The power of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system</p>\n<p>2. <em><strong>These entities all command a transfer of value - some kind of currency - in order for you to participate</strong></em></p>\n<p>b. The foundation of every successful economy is the implementation, and proper management of, a system of currency. A system of currency is how a society keeps track of the <strong>value </strong>that each</p>\n<p>individual or entity has created and contributed to the larger economy. Created by selling their labor or services or goods; contributed by paying taxes and participating in the economy.</p>\n<p>What we discover, from a bird's eye view, is that our entire economy, from the smallest level to the largest level, is built around the concept of funneling all of our money, or value, to positions of consolidated power.</p>\n<p>This in and of itself is not a terrible thing. Quite the opposite, in fact. At the largest levels, many of the governments and corporations in today's world are directly responsible for the excellent quality of life that so many of us are able to obtain and maintain. In order to be as successful as they are, these entities need to instill massive amounts of <strong>trust </strong>into any network of people that relies on them. Without that, the system fails. Simply stated, this is how an economy works.</p>\n<p>The problem with our current version is that there is no efficiency in it. In fact, quite the opposite. The current system of currency that we operate on is extremely expensive. Every single transaction that is performed at any level of an economy needs to ultimately tie into a single, large, cumbersome, and expensive to audit and maintain currency system. These large and expensive currency systems span the entire globe - the USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, AUD, etc. Once more - this is extremely expensive to operate.</p>\n<p>The reason for this expense is the inherent need to prevent fraud in the system. When any single area is not audited properly, the entire system becomes vulnerable. This pertains to any potential exploit, large or small - think counterfeit $20 bills alongside the size and scope in which Enron cooked the books. This is a <strong>massive </strong>societal effort.</p>\n<p>And what this boils down to is <strong>trust</strong>. Trust is hard to earn. And when you're working with a system of currency in a massive economy, there's nothing that you and everyone else needs more than to be able to trust the people that you're working with. So that's what we do as a society in order for our economy to thrive. We commit an endless amount of time and money into ensuring that we can trust, or safeguard ourselves from, the people working with us in this game of economics. We hire accountants to create spreadsheets and ledgers of data, lawyers to draw up and approve contracts, auditors to double or even triple independently verify the numbers and contracts and overall trust and more - all simply as an <strong>expense </strong>of playing in this system. All of that information needs to continually be compiled and <strong>recorded </strong>into huge ledgers and record systems of all kinds. Banks. Creditors. Local government. State government. Federal government. Every single company, every single person. Every one of us, at the individual level and every other level of society, all need to work together in order to build and record that extremely massive ledger of information that flows through our economy every day and every year. Have you ever NOT needed to constantly prove your identity to every single bank, every single level of government interaction that you've ever done - taxes, driver license, social security, etc - and not thought about how much of your TIME it was consuming?</p>\n<p>So all of this leads back around to why you can't really do what you want on a daily basis. You think that you can, but in reality you're very strictly confined to playing within the set of rules that powerful entities and, most significantly, our system of currency, has imposed on us.</p>\n<p>These companies and governments have been extremely successful in implementing the types of things that people of a free society desire. However, like every entity, they have to pay to play in an extremely expensive economic world. In order to participate, all of these entities need to comply by rules and</p>\n<p>regulations that have been implemented by governments and lawyers - again, for the sake of even being able to participate to begin with! This permeates our society and, at its core, it affects each and every one of us.</p>\n<p>1. We need to <strong>pay </strong>the expense of that system. The payment comes from our hard work, our savings, and any other value that we've been able to create or lucky enough to receive in our lives.</p>\n<p>2. We need to live by the rules that are collectively imposed on us at any and every level of the system if we want to participate in the ecosystem.</p>\n<p>I cannot overstate this so, for good measure, here goes once more: This is an EXTREMELY expensive and inefficient system that we live in.</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><strong>The Solution</strong></p>\n<p>What if I told you that I could stream more movies to you for a fraction of the cost of what Netflix charges? Or that I could give you encrypted cloud storage at a fraction of the cost of an Amazon cloud storage subscription? What if I said that I could <strong>automate </strong>the creation and audit of otherwise expensive contracts that would require costly lawyers and auditors? Or that you could get a great car insurance policy at a fraction of your current cost? Do any of these sound like good propositions?</p>\n<p><em><strong>These are all things that are literally possible and currently being built!</strong></em></p>\n<p>Anything that you can think of along these lines - ANY and EVERYTHING that you can think of that is in any way related to the economy and how money flows through it and contracts are enforced and trust is verified - all of these problems are resolved with technology that already exists.</p>\n<p><em><strong>No joke.</strong></em> And the way that they all work is through a new system of currency and value and trust that is possible on top of a technology called <strong>blockchain</strong>.</p>\n<p>If blockchain sounds familiar, that's probably because it's what the Bitcoin protocol operates on. Yes, that Bitcoin. The one that was created by an unknown person or persons in 2008 and has been on a fairly wild up and down ride ever since then.</p>\n<p>But if there's one thing that Bitcoin has proven over the last 8+ years, it's that it works. Bitcoin has had its stress tests, for sure. From the failed Mt. Gox to the current scaling issues that are being addressed, a lot of pressure has been put on it. But it has still held up to the pressure. With a market cap of over $40B USD, it has held up to all contenders that have tried and failed at breaking it. This has resulted in increased <strong>trust </strong>in the system which has resulted in increased <strong>currency </strong>being put into the system which has resulted in increased <strong>value </strong>of the overall system. It is growing organically - a product of the community that sees its potential and wants to use it to change the world. Again - literally!</p>\n<p>As a result of Bitcoin's tremendously successful run, all kinds of new alternatives to Bitcoin have been and are being built on top of the blockchain concept. A lot of these alternatives, which are referred to as altcoins or, more properly, cryptocurrencies, haven't really taken off in popularity and market cap like Bitcoin has. But there have been some serious contenders, such as Ethereum.</p>\n<p>Ethereum is another blockchain-based system of currency and value and trust, but its practical purpose of operation isn't really as a contender to the economic purpose of Bitcoin; instead, it's complementary as it is a platform that is built for creating and executing smart contracts.</p>\n<p>Remember those lawyers and the banks and paperwork that are so expensive in Currency v1.0? By building smart contracts on top of the Ethereum blockchain, one can have an ultimately less costly experience than trying to operate in the traditional financial world.</p>\n<p>These concepts, whether they're built on the Bitcoin blockchain, Etheruem's blockchain or some other implementation of it, all stand to offer considerably cheaper and more trustworthy implementations of storing <strong>and </strong>transferring our economic \"value\" to other entities in the community - whether it's your local community or your global community.</p>\n<p>Currency v2.0 has arrived. The trust system, and all the equity and liquidity that go with it, is still building up steam. It's still being tested. But it's quickly taking the world by storm. There will be winners and losers in this new digital economic space. But one thing is certain, people will eventually start to gather around the various currencies that offer the best uses and the most flexibility - just like we currently do. They will likely keep different amounts of money in a variety of different cryptocurrencies, in the same way that we today keep money in savings accounts, checking accounts, cash, stocks, bonds, and other places.</p>\n<p>While some will primarily be adopted for use as a savings account for long-term storage (for example, think Bitcoin = savings account), others which are cheaper and more practical for day to day use will begin to develop and will become the new equivalent of carrying cash. Except it will be globally accepted cash instead of USD or GBP or whatever.</p>\n<p>All of us will be able to operate in the real world at a fraction of the cost of what it currently costs society - all of us - to participate. With the massive advancements that are occurring in the automation and artificial intelligence spaces, it's very likely that humans will soon <em><strong>no longer need to work in order to participate in the global society</strong></em>. They will be able to if they want to, but they no longer need to be forced to do jobs that they don't enjoy and want to do.</p>\n<p>There's another bold statement. But think about it for a second. We already know that the unemployment market is saturated in America. And if blockchain (and other!) technology continues to slowly eat away at those traditional work spaces? The work that's being done here will essentially automate away so much of the effort and expenditures of so many men and women that currently have full time jobs <em><strong>only for the sake of supporting that system</strong></em>, that it will no longer be possible to keep everyone employed as that continues to happen. We're literally automating away the need for it, and blockchain makes it all possible.</p>\n<p>2017 has been dubbed the year of the crypto. I think it just might be. This is the year that the concept of crypto-assets are really starting their ascent into the public consciousness. The massively expensive</p>\n<p>way in which we've needed to rely on Currency v1.0 is almost over. The entire way that we live our lives will change from this.</p>\n<p>And, similar to when mankind first discovered agriculture and writing, this discovery IS spreading its way across the entire human race. This is how our ever-increasing global economy evolves. This is mankind's next massively significant achievement on a long and successful timeline of achievements.</p>\n<p>If this sounds like an exciting vision, continue to read about the blockchain technology and community. Do some basic research and an occasional search for any recent news articles that may have come out. Build your familiarity and trust level and decide whether it is a system that you would like to invest in helping to become a reality. Speak with friends and family and get their opinions. After all, this is all about building trust in a system. 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