Rebel: “This is the face of the future! Let all of Gotham’s criminals beware! Gotham City belongs to the Batman!”
News reporter: “That statement came from the self-named … SONS OF BATMAN!”
- Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns
Lao Tzu, the author of the Tao Te Ching and founder of the Taoist religion, wrote down his observations on the world. Legend says that Lao Tzu left the manuscript in the middle of the wilderness, hopped on the back of a Water Buffalo, and rode off into the sunset never to be seen again. I bought my first Bitcoin about 4 years after I first heard about it. Years before I made my first transaction, I was familiar with the lore of the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. I immediately made the connection to Lao Tzu. A mysterious man who created something significant but didn’t stay around to take any credit for it. Max Keiser introduced me to Bitcoin around 2012, he’s this crazy hyper intelligent person who rambles on and on about how corrupt the financial system is. His assistant, Stacey Herbert, is the calm, level-headed one who translates Max Keiser’s wild tangents into understandable, digestible bits. In every episode of The Keiser Report, Max mentioned Bitcoin at least once. After four years of listening to Max ramble on about “Bitcoin”, “Decentralization”, and “A New Financial Paradigm”… I was sold. I found the nearest Bitcoin ATM and bought a whole Bitcoin for $650. The Keiser Report was recently banned from YouTube along with its parent network, RT, for Russian dysinformation in March 2022. Now what? I had no idea what to do with a Bitcoin. What could I buy with it? I researched it day and night. I still didn’t get it, but I kept bragging to my friends about how I owned a Bitcoin. Bitcoin took over my brain, it’s all I could talk about. When my wife worked at Google, I would go to their company events and talk about Bitcoin to whoever would listen. Then one day it all just clicked, and I understood the Blockchain, Proof-of-Work, and why decentralization was so important. I imagine that the impact Satoshi Nakamoto had when he disappeared is the same kind that Jesus Christ had on the known world after he died. Christ’s followers built a decentralized network of underground church nodes that allowed Christianity to flourish in the face of tyrannical government power.
People are still trying to figure out the significance of Bitcoin to this day. In my view, Bitcoin is an ideology before it is a Currency. The tenet of decentralization and preventing a centralized economy that can be easily controlled is a core value. Satoshi Nakamoto’s genesis block, “The Times, 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks," highlights the frustration with the centralized banking system. In 2008, there was a global financial collapse caused by greedy Wall Street bankers making radical speculations on subprime mortgages. The global economy never actually recovered from it, the governments just swept it under the rug. This caused millions of people to have their homes foreclosed on… my family’s home included. Then the US government bailed out Wall Street because they were “too big to fail, ” but abandoned Main Street. I was a teenager witnessing my mom, stepdad, and four brothers get traumatized by this event. Losing the house that we lived in for the past decade. We felt powerless.
I was intrigued when I heard about Bitcoin a few years later. It was supposed to be this community-driven decentralized currency. I was surviving on the goodwill of others after I left my mom's apartment to try to make it on my own. She had too many mouths to feed as it was, and I felt guilty being one of them. I just didn’t have the time or money to get any Bitcoin at the time, and even if I did, there was no infrastructure yet ….but boy, was I intrigued. This was also around the time when Occupy Wall Street was happening and there was a lot of energy around Financial Reform. Everyone was protesting with their Guy Fawkes masks. When Medallion XLN’s protocol is ready to launch, I’ll fully dox myself, and I’ll tell everyone the long sad story about my life. We can cry together, and a famous YouTuber can set up a GoFundMe, then give me 10% of the funds raised. My life must be what conservatives mean when they say, “Pull yourself up by the bootstrap.” Except in my case, it was, “Pull yourself out of the depths of hell.”
I tell these stories because soon Medallion XLN will release our Whitepaper and launch our ICO. I want to make it clear that I’m not motivated by superficial, surface level change. Medallion XLN isn’t a copy of whatever Blockchain fad is happening at the moment, we seek to shake the system in a fundamental way. We assembled the most brilliant and talented team. Industry professionals with over a decade of expertise in their field. Our community will meet the team, and be impressed. The Smart Contract is simple but powerful enough to be extremely disruptive to Silicon Valley’s data harvesting practices. Our mission is to restore your digital sovereignty with a trustless, completely decentralized ecosystem built by the community. No coding experience is required to contribute. From the research I’ve been doing, there is no use case like the one we are building, and it will completely disrupt the advertising model that has minted so many billionaires.
I follow in the footsteps of the Sons Of Satoshi such as Vitalik Buterin who founded Ethereum, a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. CZ who founded Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange which is the largest exchange in the world in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies. Justin Sun the founder of Tron, a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, proof-of-stake principles as its consensus algorithm and a cryptocurrency native to the system, known as Tronix. Dan Larimer the founder of Bitshares & EOS a blockchain protocol based on the cryptocurrency EOS. The smart contract platform claims to eliminate transaction fees and also conduct millions of transactions per second. Those are my heroes. Those are my Blockchain Mount Rushmore.
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