The day the simulation glitched

[BlackHatCoiner]

You know what happened the day you finally understood bitcoin?

The mask fell off.

You stopped pretending your relationship wasn't a negotiated ceasefire.
You stopped calling compliance "career growth."
You stopped pretending your savings account had a future.
You stopped pretending stock markets were anything but state-sponsored simulations backed by the faceless fiatlords.
You stopped pretending war and debt were separate industries.
You stopped pretending this is normal life.

The fog burned off.

You scroll through the origins of the Federal Reserve at 3 AM and feel an agent from Matrix is watching you.
You watch a two-hour podcast about money and realize the world runs on debt, antidepressants and denial.
You run a full node, and feel like you're committing a felony.

You sat there, and realized people once revolted over a 2% tax, and now you surrender half your income just to rent existence from a collapsing empire.

You didn't buy bitcoin to win.
You bought it because you were tired of playing a rigged game.
Because your father spent his life producing value just to retire into debt.
Because your bank account was frozen for sending €250 to a friend.
Because the man on TV wears a suit and a rehearsed smile while describing civilizational decay as "market adjustments."
Because comfort made everyone obedient.

Bitcoin didn't improve your portfolio.
It rewired your perception.

You started eating like a human, not a schizophrenic overconsumer medicating boredom with calories.
You train your body and mind, because your ancestors didn't survive famine and war for you to decay behind a screen.
You stopped kneeling to titles, logos, and institutional priests.

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

[Karl_3000]

Bitcoin didn't improve your portfolio.

Bitcoin improved my portfolio.

Bitcoin isn't an investment.

If bitcoin is not an investment, it will not have the huge marketcap it is having today, bitcoin is an asset and it is a means of investment. Because bitcoin is an asset is the reason I was interested.

[Finestream]

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

I don’t usually read long posts, but this one I couldn’t skip. I just had to quote this part because I definitely agree with it.

Although I still see Bitcoin as an investment since it grows over time like traditional ones, I also like how you described it as an evaluation from modern slavery. That’s true. Let me relate it to our country: when our government is corrupt, everything we see becomes fake. There’s no real assurance that the future will be good because the greedy ones just take whatever they want, leaving the country to struggle, maybe even face hyperinflation. Fiat dies, but with Bitcoin, as long as we hold it, it frees us from that kind of system.

Thanks for sharing this, really learned something new - definitely worth reading.

[Moreno233]

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

Bitcoin is freedom! This is what I have come to understand. I cannot remember keeping substantial fiat in my bank account anymore except those for my day-to-day activities and that saved me from constant high bank charges, account maintenance fee, email and SMS charges, ATM service charge, unending daily and monthly withdrawal limit in my account and many other bogus charges just to exploit people. Bitcoin solved all these plus more and knowing about Bitcoin have been my greatest achievement and the best thing that have happened to me.

[Btcdeybodi]

Yet another one of your numerous poems i enjoy reading, i could remember in the past when some of your poetic messages were moved to the off-topics board but it is what it is, they are still relevant there, besides, off-topics is not a trashcan

~cut out~

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

I am so interested in this line of your poem which is to let us understand that bitcoin has come to rescue us from the modern slavery called 'fiats'. Maybe we are headed on our way to financial freedom since we are already moving out from modern slavery. Well-done BlackHatCoiner

[Odohu]

I learnt about Bitcoin from the angle of utility, at a point in my country where access to FX for international transaction was something reserved for the privileged and few items chosen by the government. The need to send transaction across borders pushed me to begin the inquiry on how to get this done. Paypal, Neteller, wire transfer and many other means of doing this were restricted in my country. Lo and behold, Bitcoin was suggested and I was amazed at how I could carry out transaction that take days in conventional payment systems in minutes. I paid for FX courses abroad and many other programs I was running then within minutes. Bitcoin opened a new chapter for me and since then I have never doubted what Bitcoin can do. Although it never occurred to me earlier that I could be changing my life for good if I held some of those Bitcoin I was buying to pay for services. But I have no regrets, I used Bitcoin as a means of payment and that is part of what Bitcoin was created to do.

[Sanitough]

You didn't buy bitcoin to win.
You bought it because you were tired of playing a rigged game.
Because your father spent his life producing value just to retire into debt.

This really hits me hard. I’ll never forget how my father worked so hard retired from public service but still ended up in debt, with just enough retirement money to cover his medications. I don’t want to follow that same path, that’s why I chose freedom, and for me, that’s Bitcoin.

@OP reminded me once again that I shouldn’t neglect the value of Bitcoin. Instead of spending it carelessly, I should keep it.

Fiat is controlled by the corrupt, that’s why… FIAT = RIGGED.

[Pumpsta]

Oh man I wish all lines were true in my case too but I’m still left with a few unchecked. I guess there’s still stuff to learn For most of the people I know who’re involved in Bitcoin now, all it took was one try of a real transaction (like an Electrum transaction, not spending from binance or whatever). They immediately fell in love with BTC!

All you gotta do is try it out, and when you realize what it can do for you.. you can’t keep your eyes shut forever

[midina6445]

Powerful and raw. This isn’t about gains—it’s about awakening. Bitcoin didn’t just change your finances, it shattered the illusion. A quiet rebellion against a system built on compliance, debt, and denial. EZPassFL login

[flapduck]

This .... sounds like a fun rant, on the surface

But it is engagement bait more than anything grounded in reality.

Running a full node doesn't feel like "committing a felony." It's legal almost everywhere and mostly just... boring sysadmin work.

The "people revolted over a 2% tax and now you surrender half your income" line is cable-news math; effective rates vary wildly by country and bracket, and most folks aren't losing "half" just to exist. Same with "your bank freezes €250 for sending to a friend", possible with a trash bank or a bad flag, sure, but not some universal law of the fiat universe.

"Stock markets are state-sponsored simulations" is a nice villain monologue, but companies actually raise capital, pay dividends, and die when they misallocate. Calling the whole thing a simulation ignores the messy price discovery that happens daily. And dunking on HR and antidepressants is just cheap. People have real mental health issues; swapping priests for payroll isn't the zinger you think it is.

"Bitcoin isn't an investment, it's an evacuation machine" sounds cool on a t-shirt, but most people do treat it as an investment, or at least a volatile savings asset. Bitcoin is powerful because it's dull and mechanical: fixed supply, bearer settlement, permissionless access. It's not a personality transplant. If you want to persuade non-zealots, skip the apocalypse poetry and show them how to self-custody, how fees work, and why final settlement without a gatekeeper is useful in normal life. Less Matrix, more manuals.


Maybe we can try to have higher quality posts around here.

[hero_the_bossman]

I like how you defined BTC in the end, - an evacuation from a bad system into the system that appreciates you first and foremost, and you should do that back to be fine in it.

Being your own master is the best thing BTC provides.. If you don't let third parties play with your coin.

[ruykeri]

I don't know how long we will have to live in this fraudulent system of fiat currency. Where there is no freedom, no security, there is only dancing at the behest of the government. Since the day I realized that central banks have been creating a loop of lending to the people on the basis of interest and creating inflation for years. Since then, I have developed a passion for Bitcoin. We just want to stop the dancing between the government and the central bank system.

[FortuneFollower]

^ It will never end, but some will understand there are alternatives

[Sammye3]

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

I might not have the knowledge of Bitcoin's structure in full because there is still more to learn about Bitcoin, but I can't agree with this statement because to the best of the knowledge of the majority here Bitcoin is seen as an investment.

No investment has assured profits as you could make losses or profits in the long run. It could make the poor rich and the rich broke, that's the system it runs.

It was a nice write-up anyway and I believe you poured in your soul into this. Not just everything adds up for me.

[Donneski]

Damn… you just know how to put into words what many of us only felt.
That eerie calm that hits when the veil lifts and the world suddenly looks too staged to be real.

I didn’t start investing in Bitcoin for profit either. I bought it because I was tired of renting sanity from a system that sells chaos by design.

Your words hit like that first block confirmation... quiet but impossible to forget. They reminded me why I stopped waiting for permission to be free.

You wrote what we’ve all been living. The day the simulation glitched and the signal finally came through.

[BattleDog]

This .... sounds like a fun rant, on the surface

But it is engagement bait more than anything grounded in reality.

Running a full node doesn't feel like "committing a felony." It's legal almost everywhere and mostly just... boring sysadmin work.

The "people revolted over a 2% tax and now you surrender half your income" line is cable-news math; effective rates vary wildly by country and bracket, and most folks aren't losing "half" just to exist. Same with "your bank freezes €250 for sending to a friend", possible with a trash bank or a bad flag, sure, but not some universal law of the fiat universe.

"Stock markets are state-sponsored simulations" is a nice villain monologue, but companies actually raise capital, pay dividends, and die when they misallocate. Calling the whole thing a simulation ignores the messy price discovery that happens daily. And dunking on HR and antidepressants is just cheap. People have real mental health issues; swapping priests for payroll isn't the zinger you think it is.

"Bitcoin isn't an investment, it's an evacuation machine" sounds cool on a t-shirt, but most people do treat it as an investment, or at least a volatile savings asset. Bitcoin is powerful because it's dull and mechanical: fixed supply, bearer settlement, permissionless access. It's not a personality transplant. If you want to persuade non-zealots, skip the apocalypse poetry and show them how to self-custody, how fees work, and why final settlement without a gatekeeper is useful in normal life. Less Matrix, more manuals.


Maybe we can try to have higher quality posts around here.

Agree, we need to be honest about BTC and not sound like fanatic shillers.

[henry_of_skalitz]

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

I might not have the knowledge of Bitcoin's structure in full because there is still more to learn about Bitcoin, but I can't agree with this statement because to the best of the knowledge of the majority here Bitcoin is seen as an investment.

No investment has assured profits as you could make losses or profits in the long run. It could make the poor rich and the rich broke, that's the system it runs.

It was a nice write-up anyway and I believe you poured in your soul into this. Not just everything adds up for me.

The ways described in the OP are idealistic, as the BTC itself is - much more people would look at something that may bring big profit to them only in such a way, don't you think?

But overall, BTC truly does allow you to get off the hook of the official systems and get yourself an alternative to them, the one where you are in charge, basically.

[purple_sparkles]

I’ve noticed that many governments are now also turning to bitcoin as a form of financial safety, they talk about bitcoin reserves, and even politicians themselves are creating their own crypto holdings. However, I also see that these same governments are doing everything possible to prevent the free and uncontrolled use of bitcoin. They want to see all digital transactions, monitor their citizens, and are introducing various laws to regulate cryptocurrency.Under the influence of such regulations and constant inspections, it’s not impossible that bitcoin could eventually become fully controlled by governments. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, it just means we should be prepared for different possible outcomes.

[Boiboi20]

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

Bitcoin is freedom! This is what I have come to understand. I cannot remember keeping substantial fiat in my bank account anymore except those for my day-to-day activities and that saved me from constant high bank charges, account maintenance fee, email and SMS charges, ATM service charge, unending daily and monthly withdrawal limit in my account and many other bogus charges just to exploit people. Bitcoin solved all these plus more and knowing about Bitcoin have been my greatest achievement and the best thing that have happened to me.

I feel you on that bitcoin really does bring a sense of freedom no more crazy bank fees hidden charges or annoying withdrawal limits it is such a good feeling to actually have control over your own money without bank talking a cut every time honestly learning about bitcoin is one of those thing that completely changes how you see money and freedom

[mrust_mobile]

I agree with you in general but I am pretty damn sure bitcoin is an investment which outperformed many other assets in the last decade. I also find it quite dangerous make a cult out of it. Bitcoin solved so many daily problems, it enabled free p2p trade, it is probably the best invention ever since torrent which is another p2p network and it made many people rich beyond their dreams but worshipping btc like it cured cancer or ended the world war isn’t the most healthiest mental state. I’d rather treat as it is a very good asset and a tool in my box of asset and tools. Similar to gold but have more practical uses than gold. Since we all have physical bodies and don’t live in the virtual world (yet) we usually have the need to touch physical things which we can call “ours” and gold fills that need. Juss sayin