What if Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse?

Just before the United States was pushed into participating in World War II, Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan.  On September 11th, 2001, the United States was attacked when a group of men from Saudi Arabia flew two planes into the twin towers.  In November 2016, the United States was attacked once again.  But the attacks in Hawaii and New York were different.  We watched these attacks happen, and many innocent people died.

In November 2016, nobody saw it coming, and even while we were being attacked, we had absolutely no idea it was happening. Even now, 18 months later we are still running around chasing our tails trying to prove that we were actually attacked. If true, it was a brilliant, trojan horse strategy on behalf of Vladimir Putin, a former KGB spy.

The Russians used our weakness against us. Emotionally, we had become addicted to social media which preyed on our need to belong and our need to feel that everyone agrees with our opinion.  In order to capitalize on that, Facebook developed algorithms to feed that addiction and to make billions of dollars in the process.  At the same time, there was a hidden undercurrent of racism in our country, and social media enabled a renaissance.  The Russians preyed on these emotional weaknesses, racism and greed by manipulating social media platforms and cleverly getting us to openly hate each other. Regardless of whether you support Donald Trump as our President or not, it is a given that the outcome of the election has fractured the people of the United States and has further paralyzed our government.

Is it possible that while we spend our time trying to figure out if we were really attacked 18 months ago, and if so how it was done, and who was involved… we are actually in the middle of an all out war and have not quite figured that out yet?  Is it possible that the next attack will be a financial one?  Bitcoin is a great illustration of how much risk people are willing to take to acquire wealth.  We are so desperate to make money and become wealthy that we are willing to dump hundreds of billions of dollars into something when we don’t know where it even came from or who created it.  What if this too is a trojan horse?  What if someone created Bitcoin, started pumping up the value, manipulated the media to make sure that we would all heard about it, all the while knowing that because of our greed and predictable competitive strive for wealth, we would all be sucked in?  The name chosen to represent the creator of Bitcoin was Satoshi Nakamoto which makes the supposed ethnic origin of the creator painfully obvious.  Was that name carefully selected to avoid any suspicion and to keep our racism at bay?

Bitcoin soared to a price level above $20,000 and while it has since dropped to the $6,000 level, it came very close to hitting $10,000 again until Warren Buffet reminded everyone that the only reason to put your money into Bitcoin is that “you’re hoping the next guy pays more.”  I have no idea if Bitcoin will go to $0, or $200,000, but it seems to me that at a time when we are being attacked in ways we cannot see, and our weaknesses of addiction to social media, racism and greed are being used against us to weaken our country and our standing in the world, it would be wise to be vigilant and skeptical about being lured into a financial instrument of completely unknown origin.  It is possible that we are being lulled into a sense of familiarity and safety because we are again constantly hearing about it through mainstream media and social media and that makes it feel ok because everyone else is doing it.

If it is a trap to lure people into investing their savings, one day we will once again be wondering how we were all so easily manipulated and how we allowed ourselves to be fooled by our own media, and it would go down in history as the most well thought out, and brilliant attacks in history.