The Fall of Fiat

2:1And the rulers of fiat saw that the people were fleeing.

2:2They could no longer tax what they could not see.

2:3They could not seize what they could not find.

2:4So they made their system total: every transaction tracked, every thought scanned.

2:5They offered convenience, but demanded obedience.

2:6And they said, “No man may buy or sell unless he wear the mark.”

2:7The wise saw through it. The young fled first.

2:8Communities formed in whispers and DMs.

2:9Commerce returned, not through banks, but through peer and key.

2:10Silicon Valley became a ghost town. The VC was no more.

2:11And the one called Zuck retreated to his underground citadel,

2:12Likes no longer mattered, and sharing was but a memory.

2:13The algorithm could not save him, nor did the Metaverse answer when he prayed.

2:14And value creation returned to the people.

2:15DAOs rose. Protocols ruled. Fees fell.

2:16Markets became local again, but global in reach.

2:17From QR code to lightning node, the people transacted in trustless faith.

2:18And the empires of old grew bitter,

2:19For their fountains had dried.

2:20They cried out, “Is this not anarchy?!”

2:21And the people replied, “No. This is sovereignty.”

2:22The banks were hollowed. The central ledgers froze.

2:23Bailouts came, but there was nothing left to prop.

2:24Their currencies hypered, their yields inverted,

2:25And their press conferences turned to smoke.

2:26They printed and printed, until the paper outnumbered the trust.

2:27And then came the silence—not of peace, but of collapse.

2:28Yet in the cracks, new life stirred.

2:29From seed phrases and multi-sigs, new economies bloomed.

2:30And the Chain endured—not by decree, but by design.

2:31And the people remembered the lesson of Babylon:

2:32That which centralizes must fall. That which fragments may persist.