Life inside the Fiat Zoo

[BlackHatCoiner]

It's 2038.

Bitcoin sits at $2.6 million.

Your friend who called bitcoin a scam with "no intrinsic value" is living in a 19 sqm smart pod owned by a climate fund and rented through three middlemen.

He's on his fifth booster of UBI credits, still calling them "temporary assistance."

His electric car won't start until he watches a government ad about sustainability.

His smart fridge reports his red meat consumption to the Ministry of Wellness.

He still tweets about "energy efficiency" from a subscription-based phone he doesn't own.

His savings are denominated in Central Bank tokens that expire every quarter to "stimulate spending."

He calls it innovation. You call it captivity.

He works remotely for an AI that evaluates "emotional alignment" instead of productivity.

He still remembers when you told him to buy bitcoin at $100k back in 2025, but he "stayed rational" after a fifteen-minute YouTube sermon convinced him it was a Ponzi scheme for tech bros.

Now he earns digital coupons for good behavior and spends them on cricket protein and antidepressants.

He scrolls past old screenshots of bitcoin charts the way exes look at wedding photos.

He calls you "lucky", as if foresight were a lottery ticket.

He still believes the system just "needs reform", while it audits his carbon score before approving groceries.

He spends evenings attending mandatory empathy workshops streamed by his employer.

He trusts a third party.
You hold your own keys in a setup so cold that archaeologists will find it before hackers do.

He rents his home, his entertainment, and his air.
You're sovereign.

He has compliance.
You have freedom.

It's 2038.

He owns nothing.
But he's not happy.

[Karl_3000]

One of the things that I do not have believe in is fiat savings, fiat are created in a way to make people lose money. The government will always be in control of it to make people lose some money. If your money is not in any business, the best is to buy a good asset like bitcoin, gold or silver. I totally accept this one.

[Mia Chloe]

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All my years on the forum lol few though I don't think I've come across a comeback crazier than yours. You literally left the forum a technical guy and came back a poet. Anyways your posts are still quite catchy by the way and thumbs up for that. I'm still tryna wrap my head around what happened between you and a no coiner that pissed you so much you literally had to go into poetry for roasting them.

When will we get you back at the technical board once again  ...

[PrivacyG]

He still remembers when you told him to buy bitcoin at $100k back in 2025, but he "stayed rational" after a fifteen-minute YouTube sermon convinced him it was a Ponzi scheme for tech bros.

Now he earns digital coupons for good behavior and spends them on cricket protein and antidepressants.

He scrolls past old screenshots of bitcoin charts the way exes look at wedding photos.

He calls you "lucky", as if foresight were a lottery ticket.

Very interesting.  In my mind he will never even believe that he did wrong by never investing in Bitcoin.  He will say 'Be serious.  At 2,600,000 Bitcoin is WAY too over priced! I will wait for the next crash and then maybe I invest'.  These are the same words he repeated every few years but he does not realize he had the same opportunity many times and said no to every single one of them.

He will continue to invest in the Banks.  2,600,000 Dollars are probably going to have the same purchasing power 50,000 Dollars had in 2025 but he thinks he always had a better plan.  While we were stressing our brains out.  All he had to do is keep his 50,000 Dollars in his Bank and now thanks to the 2 percent rates it turned to over 60,000 Dollars by doing nothing!

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I like your rants.  You have been posting these for a few days now, are you writing them on the spot or do you have a lot of them prepared?

[Odohu]

Thank you @BlackHatCoiner for us idea of what the future will look like. I'm happy  to see you fully back in the forum and with a crusade on Bitcoin. Let those who have ears hear what @BlackHatCoiner is saying. You will be tucked big time if you fail to embrace Bitcoin. Bitcoin is no way near its true value and in the future, it will get to a million and more but the biggest regrets will be not having Bitcoin.

[Agbamoni]

Its 2038

Another post that proves why Blackhatcoiner stands out on this board. When you went indoors the board went silent and now you're back the board is on fire. I like how you throw those bombs on no-coiner  +1

In 2038 Bitcoiners will not bother of preaching Bitcoin to our folks anymore. In fact currently I have stopped trying to convince anyone to see Bitcoin as a masterpiece. The proof is already there for them to see. If they are too blind to see, let them remain blind for eternity. Those who keep trusting traditional system and credit bureaus will own nothing and still owe huge money. Is credit card a safe space? Hahaha.. its just another way to keep you in debt. I pity those folks that trust that system. There are lots of advertisement on the TV, from creditkarma, to Experian. They are trying to make taking loan a normal thing. They feel comfortable because they can easily purchase anything while on debt..bla. bla bla.

He calls you "lucky", as if foresight were a lottery ticket.

Buddy there is a saying "The man who refuses to think will always call the free man lucky". I know many folks who say people who invested in Bitcoin 6 years, 8 years and 11 years ago are lucky. Yeah, whatever, thats what they think. Maybe it is this same luck ideology that kept them from investing in bitocin this 2025. Even more years to come, they wont see reason why.

[Zwei]

He owns nothing.
But he's not happy.

but big brother told him, he will own nothing and be happy.

One of the things that I do not have believe in is fiat savings, fiat are created in a way to make people lose money. The government will always be in control of it to make people lose some money.

once the empire implodes, there will be no government left to make people lose only "some" money.
the paper bills and the 1 and 0 on our banks account will be worth a big fat zero, but at least we can burn the paper to keep us warm on cold winter nights.

If your money is not in any business, the best is to buy a good asset like bitcoin, gold or silver. I totally accept this one.

and bottle caps. /s

[Joy- maker]

He trusts a third party.
You hold your own keys in a setup so cold that archaeologists will find it before hackers do.

He rents his home, his entertainment, and his air.
You're sovereign.

He has compliance.
You have freedom.

It's 2038.

He owns nothing.
But he's not happy.

sincerely speaking this your poem is very interesting I read it over and over again, because I was really enjoying reading it and I find it to be very educating, and this part of the poem which I quoted is the part that really interest me the more and it's also an eye opening to those folks who haven't yet get started with bitcoin to get started as soon as possible, for bitcoin offers freedom which fiat can offer you that, and with bitcoin you are in full control of your funds no need to trust your funds in a third party's hand financial sovereignty. And there is joy in holding bitcoin so let's keep holding  .

[Obim34]

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Your poet composition is more convincing speaking revelations fortune teller (maybe you are ) or just hating on no - coiners (expanding the hate now i do too) because you refused to be like them and they refused to be like you.

By 2034 my 0.1 BTC will be worth $100K or more when today it is worth $10K.

His $10K he refused to invest, spent on entertainment, enjoyment, subscriptions and relaxations will perish while i will have my investment grow into fortunes.

[Zoomic]

It's 2038.

Bitcoin sits at $2.6 million.

It looks like a joke and totally impossible for bitcoin to hit $2.6 million by 2038 but also remember that it was more impossible to imagine that bitcoin will hit $100k from 2010. It sounds like a joke, like a fictional play but the wise knows it's gonna happen.

If you make mistakes at first, it is called a mistake. But if you repeat same mistake again, it is called foolishness. BlackHatCoiner is giving the last warning now, just like Saylor but many seem not to understand. My happiness is that 10 years later, people are gonna stumble on this thread and vindicate him.

[BlackHatCoiner]

You literally left the forum a technical guy and came back a poet

Still interested in the cryptography, privacy and security. Still a cypherpunk. I'm just already working and studying those things outside bitcointalk. Poetry rants are the lunch break.

I like your rants.  You have been posting these for a few days now, are you writing them on the spot or do you have a lot of them prepared?

I was preparing this one. Sometimes I think of them throughout the day; other times I start with an intro, get irritated halfway through, and finish it in one burst. I can't control myself at this point, I just need to write.

[Donneski]

I read this and honestly, it didn't even feel like fiction. It feels more like a time capsule opened too early, a poetic prophecy of when convenience becomes currency and freedom a subscription. Every line draws that haunting contrast between sovereignty and submission and between those who chose self-custody and those who outsourced their autonomy to the system they trusted.

Your “Fiat Zoo” imagery cuts deep. It’s more than satire, it's like a mirror showing how easily freedom slips away under the banner of progress. You captured how society trades independence for comfort and how those who once mocked Bitcoin’s “lack of value” now live lives stripped of real worth.

Just like you did in the other thread you created two days ago, you’ve turned truth into art and foresight into poetry. As a huge lover of poetry, I can confidently say you’re my favorite person on this forum at the moment. Thank you for making this return to the forum.

[kotajikikox]

One of the things that I do not have believe in is fiat savings, fiat are created in a way to make people lose money. The government will always be in control of it to make people lose some money. If your money is not in any business, the best is to buy a good asset like bitcoin, gold or silver. I totally accept this one.

Fiat currencies are meant to be used for transactions, they are not to be held because their value diminishes. The sooner people realize this, the better financial choices they will start to make. Fiat is not what you use to save up money or if you want your money to grow.

[ertil]

It's 2038.

Yes. And old Bitcoin Core versions like 22.0 keeps crashing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5365359.msg58166985#msg58166985

Bitcoin sits at $2.6 million.

And every time, when you want to spend it, you have to go through KYC, unless you live outside Europe.

He still tweets about "energy efficiency" from a subscription-based phone he doesn't own.

If you have a typical computer, with Intel Management Engine, then you also don't own it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Security_vulnerabilities

And if you have an old ThinkPad with LibreBoot, then it becomes more and more outdated over time, because if you use some hardware from 2008 in 2038, then it is 30 years behind, so you have to use it completely offline, because connecting it to the network is too dangerous, if it can be attacked by all that malware, that was created since 2008.

He works remotely for an AI that evaluates "emotional alignment" instead of productivity.

Because of UBI, I don't think most people would work at all.

He trusts a third party.

Just like many Bitcoiners, who use SPV wallets, because the size of the full archival chain is measured in terabytes.

You hold your own keys in a setup so cold that archaeologists will find it before hackers do.

If your LibreBoot laptop will not run out of battery, of course.

It's 2038.

And every programmer has a lot of things to do, because of Year 2038 problem. Also, there is a lot of drama about the latest changes to the timestamps in Bitcoin, based on a no-fork, that constantly triggers blockchain reorganization in unupgraded nodes, because otherwise, they keep crashing, and refuse to accept timestamps greater or equal to 0x80000000.

[BlackHatCoiner]

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You're describing software maintenance. I'm describing societal decay.
The world is moral rot wrapped in surveillance served as engineered stability, and bitcoin can't kill this fast enough. But, for the first time, we have a foundation to rebuild.

At least bitcoin gives you hope. Fiat gives you nihilism with a user interface.