ZEC isn't the next Bitcoin: It’s Better
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Let's start with the basics: what is money?
😐 B-tier answer: a medium of exchange
😙 A-tier answer: crystallised labour
🤗 S-tier answer: the basic unit of structural control over the masses
Think about it.
Since the world ditched the gold standard in 1971, money isn't backed by anything.
It derives its value from a shared belief that the government who prints it is credible and solvent enough to honour the IOU that is paper (or digital) fiat money.
The supply and circulation of money is controlled by institutions.
Money governs nearly all relationships; it influences what job we do, where we live, who we socialise with, how well we eat, how well our kids will perform.
Money is much more than an IOU. It is the basic unit of the structure built around us by institutions and societies to normalise and incentivise us to behave in the socially acceptable way.
When Bitcoin was first released, governments and institutions not only hated it, they feared it.
On the surface, their rhetoric was “BTC is for criminals, it has no value, you will lose everything using it”.
But the real threat was deeper.
BTC is the basic unit of structural freedom.
Born from compute and energy, Bitcoin cannot be corrupted. It cannot be at the service of any one entity. Bitcoin cannot be created at will, destroyed, nor limited in its circulation.
You can make it hard to access it, but you can't make it disappear.
For over a decade, governments have tried to prevent the unavoidable: they did all they could to block Bitcoin’s rise. They didn't succeed.
There was only one way to control Bitcoin: welcome it in the club. Make it institutional, mainstream.
And so they did.
Millions of people now own BTC through ETFs, ETNs and other tradeable instruments.
They get the economic exposure but not the fundamental value of Bitcoin. They trade ease and ROI for freedom.
In this situation, people who care about the crypto ethos feel unaligned with BTC. It does not represent the values they care about anymore. From a unit of freedom, BTC has become another form of institutional money.
Coins like ZEC are the only viable alternative. Born from the same vision, the benefit of privacy on top, ZEC know represents the real crypto mission.
Unstoppable, private money.
ZEC is now the fundamental unit of freedom.
That's the narrative.
You don't buy ZEC for a flip.
You buy it to own your freedom. To be in charge. To partake in the system on your own terms.