Hello nostriches! My name is Micael, an Argentinian business owner, bitcoiner and the author of The Great Parasite. I am very happy to be here, and excited about the future of this protocol.
Firstly because I think about the Bitcoin and Nostr protocols as the most powerful tools we have to protect our rights and freedoms. I believe the interoperability and potential of both protocols are beyond our imagination (maybe because I am not a technical guy XD). But I am also very excited because I have a place to share my thoughts with people on an uncensorable alternative platform with a native alternative hard money system.
In this article I will tell you a little bit about me, my story and what I will be doing around here.
My rebellious nature
Flowing with the current of the masses was never my thing; I always found it boring and empty; I always felt called by the alternative way of doing things. From school to sports to university, I felt trapped in a cage, inhibited from unleashing my potential.
I always asked myself: who are these “adults” to tell me what to do? Why should I obey them? Why do they think they are superior to me? What have they achieved in life to demand respect? All I saw was hypocrisy and a desire for power and authority (in this case over kids, which I find pathetic).
I think this was always a big part of my interest in extreme sports; freestyle was my thing. Arbitrary rules? Fuck that!
When I was 10, everything I wanted to do was skateboarding; coming out from school and having my friends (that didn't go to school) waiting for me outside my house was my daily thing. At the age of 12, I switched to BMX, and until today, it is the sport in which I've built more abilities. I also like snowboarding, wakeboarding, motorcycles and now thanks to my new friends, I am learning how to surf. Shout out to Jon and Paul!
I never felt respect for arbitrary rules and authorities; I don't believe in fear-based respect and illegitimate authority. I believe respect and authority must be earned by mastering something with excellence, building, and achieving big things.
My interest in money
I always valued freedom and autonomy, and I realized from a young age that there was a correlation between these two concepts, with money being a tool to achieve them; a mean to an end, not an end per se.
The year I was born (2000), 1 Argentine peso was the equivalent of 1 US dollar. All my life I saw the accelerating death of the peso; it literally lost more than 99.99% of its purchasing power against the dollar. In the same period of time, the US dollar lost 90% of its purchasing power against gold.
Seeing the same government party for all of my childhood; the only time things seemed to change was with the Mauricio Macri administration. I quickly understood they were all the same, and they wouldn't fix the problems we had (incentives, deficit, inflation, parasitism,etc). This led me to distrust the government and the democratic system.
I always wondered why prices were always going up and never down, and this, among other related questions, led me to want to learn more about money. That’s how I got interested in finance and the capital markets around 2017.
Thanks God I found Bitcoin
During this time I heard about bitcoin for the first time, exactly at the top of the hype of course. I went to Google like every normal human being to ask what this was, and all I saw were things like “bubble,” “Ponzi scheme,” and “scam," among others. I thought, “$19,000 for a digital currency doesn't make any sense.” So I ignore it. I knew no one at the time that I could relate to bitcoin.
Since I was playing with stocks, I was always following its price; I saw it drop to 3k, and I thought, “Well yes, apparently it was a bubble; this is now dead”. But then something happened: Bitcoin started getting traction again, and I thought, “Well, this is not dead; bubbles are not supposed to restart,” so I started playing with leverage; I tripled my money and then lost everything. Big lessons learned.
After seeing its price go from 3k to almost 14k, I took a second look into it. I bought “The Internet of Money” from Andreas Antonopoulos, and the seller of the book invited me to a bitcoin talk that same week. So I went because all I wanted to do was to learn more about it.
For the first time in my life, I heard the history of money. So many things that nobody told me before! I was very upset but excited at the same time. New questions started coming; I got obsessed about it and started learning as much as possible.
I was studying at the university back then, and I had this feeling that I was wasting my time. “A global revolution is happening out there, and I am here trapped in a classroom learning things that I cannot even apply in my daily life.”
The situation in the country was really bad back then; young people were living in search of better opportunities outside because Argentina was hopeless. I saw entire families considering leaving the country too, and meanwhile I was in school feeling I was wasting my time. I kept reading more about Bitcoin because for me it was the only thing that made sense and gave me hope that a better future was possible.
The plandemic: perfect excuse to drop out!
Then the plandemic hit and everything was going to stop for two weeks.I knew from the beginning it was not going to be just two weeks, so I planned accordingly. It was my perfect opportunity to drop out and turn 100% autodidactic, keep studying and learning, but under my own terms. So I convinced my parents that I would drop out until everything goes “back to normal." because these virtual classes were not working for me. I felt this was going to give me enough time to do something.
I had a motorcycle accident soon before the plandemic, so they put a cast on my right leg, and I couldn't move from the sofa. I was living on a farm back then, isolated from everyone but surrounded by my books (Bitcoin, Austrian economics, personal finances, leadership, philosophy, etc.). Reading books and watching YouTube videos was all I could do since I couldn't move much.
When they started to talk about a vaccine as the ultimate solution, I felt they were tricking us. I felt it was all part of a bigger wicked business strategy, creating the problem and then offering the solution. Soon after this, I found Klaus Schwab: “Covid-19: The Great Reset,” and my hypothesis was confirmed: “These fuckers are playing with us and telling us straight to our faces.”
I felt trapped, desperate, hopeless. Wondering how everyone’s so stupid? Why are they doing everything the TV is telling them? Why are they all using masks and doing PCR tests? I only saw sheeps going directly to the slaughterhouse.
I hated masks from the beginning; I hardly used them except in those situations where the price of being a rebel was not worth it, like some commerce, airports, planes, etc. But even under those circumstances, I used the minimum necessary to try to breathe normally.
It was so obvious to me that these “safety measures” were only going to create more problems, not only economic problems but psychological and health problems. I am happy to say that I survived the whole plandemic without getting the vaccine and without being fucked in my nose; all of this while traveling and meeting with incredible people. This got me, of course, in many interesting and funny situations that maybe I will tell you about someday.
Sometimes I doubt myself and my intuition thinking that maybe I was wrong, because I was the only one holding to these ideas, doubt was always there somehow, but I chose to keep doing what I felt I should be doing, researching, learning and trying to understand what was really happening.
I conclude it was all about Hegel’s dialectic of problem-reaction-solution, so they were creating the perfect chaos in order for the people to ask for the premeditated solution, and this is how the individuals behind the power structures have been going forward with their agenda of control for centuries.
I thought, “Not only are they stealing our money, but our freedom and our health too; these motherfuckers want everything, and this new world order is all about control, establishing a global technocratic tyranny based on fear and slavery, with censorship, digital IDs, socialist credit scores, and CBDCs.”
This was a call to action to me, first of all to change my environment, connect with like minded individuals and then to start waking up more people about this fact, so we can turn this around.
In search of a purpose
When my journey really started with a more conscious approach, I thought that the best I could do was to tell the story of what was really happening, and in order to do it I had to explain where it was coming from. This is how The Great Parasite came into existence.
I saw that a lot of people were unveiling the truth, but very few saw the bigger picture or connected many of apparently “separated” dots. This took me on a journey of learning from our recent history as humanity (the past century and beyond) in monetary, political, and religious matters. Reading, and studying hundreds of books in the past 4 years gave me a deeper understanding of the monetary system (mainly but not only) that not many people have. Of course I read many of the popular bitcoin books, but I also found many old gems, not well known at all from the past 2 centuries with a lot of insights that confirmed how there was literally nothing new under the sun. (I’ll be sharing with you in future articles)
This was a period of learning and growing in every aspect for me, and I am very grateful for it. It was like building a puzzle, unifying all the pieces together to understand the game at every level and play it right. But with all this knowledge, I thought the best I could do was to share it with more people.
I found that education is the cornerstone of free societies and that only an educated mind can create a better world, so I aligned my actions with this, not only writing my book and articles but also selling other books and contributing to translations, focusing on bitcoin education initiatives such as Bitcoin School (part of the My First Bitcoin initiative).
There's a lot of esoteric knowledge that people need to learn and start applying ASAP because we are at war.
The war of all ages
This war I called the War of all Ages because it’s been the human struggle for millennia, a war between slavery and freedom. And of course, like everything in nature, it’s cyclical.
My purpose with this book and my article in Substack is to help people connect the dots. How things like banks, government, corporations, climate change, and communism are more correlated than they may appear on the surface and how they are all conspiring to enslave humanity at a global scale.
And of course how Bitcoin is the best tool to vote with our money against this and to build a parallel commerce under our own incentives, rules and values. This is key for winning. And bitcoin is the perfect window of opportunity to break this cycle, at least for the few of us who are paying attention and demand this change happens.
This may sound extreme to many people, but this is literally what’s happening, and it’s been going forward for at least the last century if we are talking about this current cycle. They have been taking some freedoms away from every generation, and if we dont reverse this trend we will soon find ourselves in a hopeless situation.
The first step is to recognize these facts, align our behavior with the truth, and act accordingly, protecting ourselves and those we love against the weapons of the enemy.
An interdimensional war
Since this is an interdimensional war, we fought (consciously or unconsciously) at a spiritual, mental, and physical level, being the first one the most important of all. The fact that most people believe that matter is the only thing out there shows how well the conspirators hid the truth in plain sight. This is why fear, guilt, shame, and uncertainty are so abundant among us; these are the lower frequencies that kill our willpower and creation capacities in the spiritual realm.
Then, of course, on the mental plane, where ideas such as lies, wrong mental models, and indoctrination came into existence to prevent us from reaching higher levels of consciousness.
Lastly, but not less important, we have the physical plane. Only by suppressing our spirit and governing our minds can they obtain control over our bodies. The plandemic proved this.
Here’s also where the monetary part comes in: how they steal our money, make our bodies sick, steal our resources, and so on. But this is just a reflection of the other two planes. Money is spiritual; money is energy; money is actually a tool to store our time and energy and exchange them for goods or services.
The biggest problem is this system. It's being used to control the flow of energy, to suck the energy out of the system, to steal our time and energy, and to enslave us to the cotillionaires. This is why I title my book “The Great Parasite.”.
Final words
To conclude, I want to announce that I'll be here sharing some of the insights and conclusions I developed over the last 4 years, providing key esoteric information that will be very useful during the coming years. A lot of this will be about the past, because only knowing about it can prevent some things from happening again (at least to us).
Some of the topics I'll be writing about are the history of central banking and many big conspiracies (not theories), world domination through energy control, the US dollar and its complex system, esoteric knowledge, consciousness, Bitcoin (no shitcoins), market manipulation, Argentina, sovereignty, personal experiences, opinions, and who knows what else.
If you are interested, follow me and stay tuned. I'll be writing many short articles about all these different topics exclusively for Nostr users because I believe this is a place where people will value my message more than everyone else out there.
So please prove me right :)
Bitcoin or slavery!