Introduction

Throughout history, civilization gives rise to central powers with the ability to create money
Time and time again, the urge to gain influence over money creation overpowers the incentives of real work
Trust begins to erode in central governance which inevitably succumbs to corruption and devastation
Until one day, humanity discovers money that can resist central powers, ushering in an era of prosperity

Part I: Genesis

On the brink of financial ruin, central powers made the decision to conjure new money and give to their institutions, causing dilution at the expense of the population, breaking the trust we were forced to place upon them

Then a protocol surfaced, distributed, immaculate, its resistance to coercion prevents central governance

But with traction gaining came the problem of scaling, large miners and exchanges pushed to make changes, with profits at risk they demanded a quick fix while compromising the entire protocol's resilience

This tested resistance to pressures from belligerent corporates who made the decision to implement a top-down solution, against constitution, their approach was exclusion, their downfall was ignorance

In parallel, a maverick grassroots campaign, driven by users on public domains with their laser-like focus to ascertain an opt-in solution within existing constraints, and resilience maintained, their stance did not wane

Until a breakthrough called SegWit, a technically elegant, computationally efficient, compatible update

The consensus mechanism defended the system against central coercion, and in that moment, David defeated Goliath

Though scaling issues were resolved, Goliath now craved for more control

Part II: Stake

The allure of new protocols was too much to resist, they could now take control and suppress user dissent
A chance to enrich insiders entrenched through governance system of stake
The more they make, the more they stake and stay ahead of the game

This system, their fiefdom, they rule by decree
Changes by committee adds complexity now large entities run your queries
Their equity sold as a way to free society
Trapped by duplicity, trust is vulnerability

In time centralizing creations kneel to incumbents using regulation to restrict competition and gatekeep free markets
Big corporate, big government collude their way to feudalism preserving the same caste structure, the same class system
Exploiting those whose energy is spent on lost hope from hard work and good intentions
Stake makes political power society's greatest ambition

Part III: Energy

Meanwhile energy cuts the tie between money and abstract power
If its creation costs us energy and hours then money cannot be produced endlessly at the expense of the powerless
Value for value enables a world built on merit

Energy cements the protocol's resistance to corruption in code upholding the scarcest of assets, enabling our savings, which is the basis for building our world we are individually shaping, in ways central planners can't even conceive
Only we meet our needs by free market techniques
The use of technology, the use of our energy, is how our species progress to become a more civilized society

Our universe holds a constant amount of energy in existence
So, energy is never wasted only the form of it changes
Flared gas, nuclear, volcanic explosions captured and converted into electrons, powering computations to secure and run our independent monetary system
A natural and competitive process, rewarding efficiency and progress, driving investment enabling advancement in energy sourcing and nation independence

Threatening current forms of governance
Deception is their last-ditch effort to keep victims working for an unfair system
But amongst the commotion, the signal heightens slowly, steadily...

Part IV: Prosperity

... steering more and more people to the most fundamentally significant humanitarian effort in history - individuals, communities, countries joining forces to build, teach, trade

Leaderless but aligned by a grander vision arising from one protocol that empowers us to resist the force of a centralized, politicized, destructive monetary system, leveraged as authority to diminish freedoms and livelihoods of peaceful people to feed the power hungry military-industrial complex perpetuating the cycle of war and suffering to profit stakeholders of their system by siphoning our energy until society collapses under the weight of their greed

But now we have an alternative

A virtuous ecosystem built on the foundation of incorruptibility forged by the robustness of energy and transparency of open source code to defend our stored energy from the reach of central powers, enabling our wealth to flourish with certainty over time, liberating us to explore greater ambitions

Through the programmable state of energy and interoperability of our interactions, value flows freely with finality from one another across the planet and beyond

Once we choose neutrality and truth as the pillars of value for our society, we reinstill hope and harmony in humanity and begin our journey towards an era of prosperity with Bitcoin

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