Being totally honest, I think the same as you! Bitcoin is the only salvation for ordinary people to secure something for the future, specifically to secure their pension or retirement as we want to call it. Ehem in Spain or the US you can go to a store and buy tenths of gold, 1/4 ounces, 1/2 ounces, even 1 ounce if you are wise and have the purchasing power. IT DOESN'T MATTER if you are an ordinary citizen who in a whole year could only save for a tenth of an ounce, you can still go annually and hoard some energy from the smallest unit to larger amounts. (Currently it is not possible to do that in Latin America, to buy fractions of investment gold at most jewelry and we know that the quality is not the same). And by being able to accumulate do what my grandfather said, he died a long long time ago and his last years were sad, he suffered an accident that left half his body paralyzed on the right side (his right side), and apart from that he was left a little mentally unbalanced. (Obviously when half of my body shut down, half of my brain had to shut down 🧠 surely) I was a kid and I didn't understand many things when that happened, I was only 6 or 7 years old.

To sum up, years later, he had recovered somewhat and had some mobility. He would say things like "Fuck Banks, you have to have the "morocotas" buried in the backyard of the house." To add context, "morocotas" were old coins used in Venezuela many years ago, these were made of gold. I never knew what happened to my grandfather's estate, he died alone and poor, very poor. Due to his illness after the accident he became very very violent, he hit my grandmother and my mother and that made us run away from home when I was 9 years old.

So during his last years he lived alone, and when he said those things about the morocotas everyone said he was crazy.

Today I don't know if he really had something and it's still buried under the house, or if he had it in a bank and after his accident it was confiscated, denying him access to it, which further contributed to his mental deterioration and to his later saying those phrases, which I always remembered all these years without giving them any meaning until these days of the present, or perhaps nothing ever existed. But today I thank him for those words that resonated in my head until today when I discovered the existence of bitcoin and woke up from the illusion of society and the State.