Fiat: the silent plague that devours humanity
How state money became the economic virus that parasitizes individuals, societies, and entire nations… and why Bitcoin is the only antidote.
Introduction
Plagues have always haunted humanity. The Black Death wiped out a third of Europe, smallpox devastated entire continents, locusts destroyed crops for centuries. But today we live under a more silent and insidious plague: fiat money.
It doesn’t kill instantly, but corrodes slowly. It drains your savings, distorts your incentives, and ties you to a system you never chose. An invisible virus disguised as normality.
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Fiat as an imposed dogma Fiat is not a free contract between individuals. It is a state mandate. Just as religion demanded faith in the divine and patriotism in the nation, fiat demands blind trust in paper symbols. It’s not a choice but an obligation: your taxes are paid in fiat, your debts are denominated in fiat, your wages are received in fiat. The system doesn’t allow alternatives.
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The parasitic plague effect Biological plagues invade bodies and harvests. Fiat invades entire economies. Its reproduction mechanism is inflation: a constant multiplication of bills that erodes the value of existing money. Like every parasite, it doesn’t need your consent to feed. With each new print run, a portion of your wealth is taken without you noticing. Taxes complete the task: direct value extraction that guarantees the virus keeps spreading. Each country issues its own variant—or delegates it to supranational banks like the ECB—but all remain subordinated to central powers: the dollar, the ECB, the IMF. A viral hierarchy that ensures no one escapes the infection.
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The invisible damage Historic plagues left corpses and ruined fields. The fiat plague acts in the shadows: Financing wars without citizens noticing. Just print more money. Structural inequality: the richest get access to new money first, while the poorest suffer inflation. Future destruction: long-term planning becomes impossible when savings rot. The result is a society permanently ill, convinced this disease is inevitable.
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Comparison with other historical plagues Humanity has faced multiple forms of control: Religion = spiritual control. Patriotism = territorial control. Fiat = economic control. All are different mechanisms of the same virus: obedience. Accept without questioning, believe without verifying, submit without alternatives.
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The alternative: Bitcoin as antidote If fiat is a virus, Bitcoin is the vaccine. Its rules are clear, verifiable, and unchangeable. It doesn’t rely on symbols or dogmas, but on mathematics and voluntary consensus. Bitcoin doesn’t destroy local economies—it connects them into sovereign networks. It doesn’t force you to use it—you choose it. It doesn’t deceive you with silent inflation—its supply is finite and transparent. Where fiat makes you sick, Bitcoin heals. Where fiat imposes obedience, Bitcoin offers sovereignty.
Conclusion
Fiat is a plague that has infected our lives unnoticed. Like every plague, it mutates: today through bank bailouts, tomorrow through CBDCs. The disease adapts, but remains the same.
The difference is that now we have an antidote. Bitcoin is not just money; it is the cure for economic parasitism. It is the end of blind obedience and the beginning of verifiable freedom.
Because fiat makes us sick… and Bitcoin restores our health.
Stay close, and let’s keep exploring.