The year is 2037.
After years of reckless money printing, global fiat currencies collapse almost simultaneously. The dollar, euro, and yuan are reduced to worthless paper. Nations default on their debts. Banks shut down.
At first, panic erupts: grocery stores can’t price food, governments can’t pay workers, and people line up desperately at ATM machines that no longer dispense cash.
The only currency with global trust is Bitcoin.
But here’s the catch—
• Only a tiny fraction of the population actually holds meaningful amounts of Bitcoin.
• Many who once dismissed it or “forgot their wallet passwords” are left with nothing.
• The majority are instantly impoverished, while a small class of early adopters—called the Bitcoin Lords—become unimaginably wealthy.
Life Under Bitcoin Rule
1. Extreme Wealth Divide
• Those with Bitcoin own land, energy, and food production.
• Everyone else must work for fractions of a satoshi just to survive.
2. Power Vacuum
• Governments collapse because they can’t tax or control Bitcoin.
• Instead, private security forces and “Bitcoin-backed kingdoms” rise.
• Cities are controlled by the richest wallets—anonymous digital monarchs who can buy loyalty with instant, untraceable payments.
3. Digital Serfdom
• Most people don’t own Bitcoin—they rent access to it by working for Bitcoin holders.
• Imagine peasants in the Middle Ages, but instead of paying taxes in grain, they pay their lords in satoshis.
4. No Escape
• Since everything is recorded on the blockchain, wealth is transparent.
• If you have nothing, everyone knows. If you have a lot, you’re targeted.
• The poor can’t hide, and the rich can’t ever really spend without becoming targets.
5. Energy Wars
• Bitcoin mining becomes the foundation of power. Control energy, and you control money creation.
• Regions with cheap energy (Iceland, Siberia, parts of Africa) become the new global centers of influence.
• Wars are fought not for oil—but for hydroelectric dams and solar farms.
The Horror
Bitcoin was once a dream of freedom from fiat corruption, but it mutates into a new tyranny:
• A world run not by governments or corporations—but by a handful of anonymous wallet addresses.
• If you don’t have Bitcoin, you’re invisible, powerless, and expendable.
• Instead of democracy, society is ruled by cryptographic oligarchs—people you never see, who never speak, but whose decisions ripple across the entire planet.
Posted by Radiant-Mistake-2962
7 Comments
In such a situation, I think the electrical grid would also go down so problem solved.
It’s a ruse. Central banks have inflation targeting mechanisms. There is no reason that fiat will collapse anymore in the future than it is today. Take a look around…everyone LOVES centrally banked digital currencies…we use them daily.
Bitcoin will IMPROVE fiat…not destroy it.
A la Nash’s Ideal Money and Hayek’s Proposal Denationalisation of Money
this is literally terrifying lol
can’t believe some ppl still think bitcoin is harmless
And then 2037+1 hit and everything shut down.. electrics, internet, transport, the only one open was your momma. /s humor
>Only a tiny fraction of the population actually holds meaningful amounts of Bitcoin.
That’s how it is now with fiat and probably how it always will be regardless of the money. But with currency debasement it will only get worse, and it isn’t sustainable.
If the small fraction of money that passes through our hands is at least a sound form of money, the situation will be infinitely better.
The dystopian narrative here has already happened with fiat. Thinking that we “know” anything about anyone who is at the helm of control of the actual capital of the world is laughable at best. It is already as described here but we have been given names to argue about amongst ourselves. It all needs to change. Bitcoin will help but there is no change without pain. This will hurt many. Deserving and not. It will help many in the same manner. The argument that having an honest money will end up hurting society may be true in the short term but if we truly want a better future the entire paradigm needs to change…
All empires collapse. What goes up must come down.
whats been taken must be received. We will not be living in this life. But our children, children could be. Humans have never changed since the beginning of mankind and we never will.