Our new life, chained to the blocks.
This is a fiction piece, and my entry for the contest created by @v4vapid
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We thought his name was Satoshi Nakamoto
It was 3 January 2009 the day our downfall began.
No one was aware of the implications this technology will have in our future. At first, it was like a project only geeks and weirdos would ever use.
People even exchanged their bitcoins for pizzas just for the sake of having fun, no one was taking this seriously at the beginning.
Slowly but surely, this weird technology that no one knows where it came from, started to become more and more popular.
People with black suits and deep pockets started to buy more bitcoins with money that had no trails, increasing the price of it and getting excited people from all over the world. Suddenly, a new type of business was created. It was called, mining, yes, bitcoin mining.
At the same time, some Asian companies started to sell graphic cards specifically designed to be highly efficient when performing this new booming business models, those companies were Motorola, Samsung, Toshiba and Nakamichi, all electronic companies, leaders of the industry and with advanced research in AIs. The timing of their release was so perfect that it was as if they were expecting the mining business to boom exactly on those dates.
Still, people was excited about this technology, and because of this, a lot of them started their new venture with their mining equipment. They hook up the new graphic card, and joyfully started to watch those new blocks getting confirmed, receiving the correspondent reward. Everyone was happy, the geeks, and the miners, although the majority of the world was simply ignoring this, like if it was some sort of adults game, nothing to worry about and nothing to learn from it.
Except something started to feel off. Family and friends of the miners started to notice a strange change in their behavior, as if they were becoming mentally ill or obsessed over the blockchain subject. They were not normal anymore, their eyes had a strange glowing every time they spoke about this, similar as to when religious people talked about their God. That kind of excitement, that kind of faith was present in these so call “miners”.
Some others, attracted by the huge and inexplicable gains, and convinced by hearing the miners speak about this new project, started to get involved as well.
The demand for these new graphic cards was so huge, that the 4 companies eventually ended up becoming the richest 4 companies in the world, even surpassing Apple.
Psychologist started to wonder, what was happening? Why was so many people getting obsessed about this technology? Many of them believed it was the most massive collective hysteria in recorded history. Why, you may wonder? Well, because every person that was one way or another involved with this, eventually ended up quitting their jobs and putting all of their time online, rarely interacting with others but only on private chats in the deep web, and losing contact with their real life friends.
The change in behavior affected every single one of the miners, all of them were hermits by now. And some of them decided to move together to live with other miners. They didn’t speak much, as ants doing their duties with nothing else to share, seemingly without bothering no one, and not wanting to be bothered.
After a few months like this, the first Blockchain festival was announced, the biggest group of miners were going to invite the majority of bitcoin holders, in an attempt to “unite” the blockchain community. Sadly, the press wasn’t allowed to enter that bunker, so whatever happened inside are just rumors.
Not even one of the attendants have ever speak about that day. A lot of them have been approached by family and the press, but they simply refused to share anything, and there was no law that forced them to speak. So they simple kept the secret with them, and as time went on, more festivals were announced, more higher the price of bitcoin became, and the bigger the amount of people getting involved.
Since the 4 companies were earning an immense amount of money, they had the sufficient funds to accelerate their research in AIs and ways to implement on a deeper level our mind with our devices, in a way to make us much more productive and efficient in our day to day lives.
The people was already used to the weird behavior from the blockchain crew, they were seem as a sort of cult, a mysterious group of people, all obsessed with the popularization of a technology, they look like if they were pretending to be normal, like a permanent acting that never stopped, like a complete facade. Something was off about them. But what could the people do about it? They were simply weird, and being weird has never been a crime.
Everything went quiet for a few years, of course, the bitcoin crew was always around, and as always, the rarely cases they speak with other people, was just to tell them all of the goodness blockchain technology was capable of.
Then suddenly, on 9 September, 2021 the 4 richest companies in the world finally announce the new device they were working together in order to finish it. It was simply a chip, that scanned your brain and allowed you to manipulate a variety of electronic devices, just by thinking about it. Like for example, if you wanted to open your email, with this new level of integration, you could simply think about the app, and it would open.
The funds they had been getting thanks to the mining business were finally paying off with a new innovation.
There were rumors the blockchain crew had members belonging to the government, but as it was usually the case with these things, there wasn’t any proof. Although the amount of Senators getting “cancer” and taking a break in the past year was 4, which indeed seems really odd. Either way, people decided to respect their privacy, and give them space to take proper rest and recover from their illness.
Several months after the announcement, the new device called Bermuda chip, entered the market.
As you can imagine, everyone started to buy them.
It was incredible, suddenly we all felt like if we were living in the future, we could even surf the web without needing to touch our devices.
Now, in my case, I started to get really bad headache after a few days, so I stopped to use this device because of it. The same happened to a few more people. But the majority of the population were all excited about this and using is daily.
And then IT happened...
On 3 January, 2022, 13 years after the release of bitcoin everyone went OFF!
I was having my breakfast alone in the kitchen that day, it was a Monday morning. It was weird for my mom not to be in the kitchen in those hours, but I didn’t think much about it, perhaps my parents had overslept…
This is when I saw my dad coming downstairs and I went COLD!
He seemed different, he didn’t even say good morning or anything like that. He simply sat down on the table, without saying a word to me, like if he were autistic, then my mom came down looking the same. Without saying anything to me, they started to discuss about buying some mining equipment from Toshiba, they spoke without any emotion nor excitement, ignoring me completely.
That was the last day I saw them.
I decided to go to my best friend’s house because I was spooked seeing my parents like that. When arriving, he and his family were all zombie like as well. They weren’t normal, something was happening to everyone, but not to me.
I checked twitter, most of the people I followed was talking about blockchain, what happened to politics, sports, movies?
I started to search if there were any normal person noticing it, and I found 2 users tweeting about all this craziness, they seem to be normal person so I contact them and we ended up meeting that night. My city was being kidnapped, well… not my city, my world, my race was being kidnapped!
I ended up meeting with these 2 folks and no one could explain what was happening. Almost everyone was weird, they didn’t speak, like if there were no mind or soul behind their eyes. Empty shells.
At 3 am on 4 January, 2022 I received a message from an unknown number
It said:
They were always between us, behind the shadows, behind the “powerful”, we never stood a chance against them. They have been preparing this from centuries, it is impossible to win.
They knew the way to conquer us was using our fascination with technology against us. They founded companies that looked like legitimate entities.
Satoshi Nakamoto is no person, it is their so call “companies” name combined, they even mocked us like that. Leaving clues here and there but we were to blind to see them.
The Bermuda chip wasn’t for allowing us to control our devices, it was to control our brain and change everything in it. They didn’t release it before since they didn’t have enough people inside government to allow the chip to pass the regulations, that’s why it took some years for them to “develop it”.
The people aren’t crazy, they simply aren’t there anymore, they are stored in the blockchain, they live there and they are conscious. If we destroy the blockchain, we destroy our people, they are forever stored in a virtual toy of someone or somethig we cannot even understand.
They are integrated in the blockchain, they are inside the blockchain, they are trapped.
If this message ever reaches someone, please know you are not alone, not everyone is lost.
The enemy we are facing is out of this world, we don’t understand how long have they been here, but if we are going to die, we are doing it while fighting…
They are above us.
Neo… where are you?
And here I am right now, watching my world fall apart, without having a clue of what is happening around me…
All I know is satoshi is not a real person nor from this reality, they are above, but where, when I see up to the skies I only see stars? Are they in one of those stars? Are they in the moon?
Wait, did I just hear this guy talking about blockchain?…
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So your saying cryptocurrency is an evil business plan devised by Asians to hypnotize the rest of the human race to buy into their products. Lol i kidd :D
Something like that lol . But it is not to hypnotize, it is to steal our minds :P
Steal our minds to sell toshiba and sony products constantly
This is really a great contest to participate in. Thank you for sharing! And yeah - I had a quite nice read!
Thanks I am glad you like it!
Really well planned out and executed storyline. I can see this being an excerpt from our future history books! lol Thanks for sharing such a great stort!