Hey and welcome to Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host, Whitney Webb. If you are closely following the rollout of the global biometric surveillance slavery state under the guise of the fourth industrial revolution, you may have noticed that many of the powers building and promoting the system have a soft spot for digital currency. Many digital currencies with currently existing and in the works are being used to build the infrastructure for complete currency. Many digital currencies, what currently existing and in the works,

are being used to build the infrastructure for complete centralized control and the eradication

of privacy, specifically financial privacy. Hence the war on cash and the lesser-discussed

war on encryption and bid to label privacy-focused cryptocurrencies as national security threats and drivers of so-called cybercrime.

Many of the most predatory pilots of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies,

which are routinely tested on refugees, stateless people, and other incredibly vulnerable populations,

involve linking digital ID in some sort of digital currency or token.

As is to be detailed in unlimited hangouts next installment of our Sustainable Development Goals

series, the UN specifically links mandatory digital ID globally to financial inclusion and argues

that digital currencies are necessary in order for so-called sustainable development to advance.

While the pitfalls and dangers of digital currencies are more apparent than ever, there is a

cultural rift among those who, at least once upon a time, saw certain technologies and developments

under this umbrella, like blockchain and Bitcoin, as a potential exit ramp from the road towards

centralized tyranny and control by building a permanently decentralized monetary system.

Bitcoin specifically, allegedly anyway, was created in response to the 2008 economic

crisis and the corrupting influence of central banks and the criminal activity of commercial

banks. While some Bitcoiners have fought to

uphold these values, many powerful actors in the Bitcoin space and the broader cryptocurrency sphere

are undermining this ethos or building systems that completely oppose the original impulse

that led to Bitcoin's creation. Among those of us who oppose the rollout of the 4IR system

and the mass implementation of the biometric surveillance state,

is it still possible to work with digital currencies

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