The Silicon Age is Coming, Cryptocurrency Becomes the Last Sanctuary of Freedom

In the first half of 2025, an inexplicable anxiety enveloped many people. For thirty years, we could reasonably predict the trajectory of the next decade of life, but suddenly, the world became unfamiliar—careers, life goals, and even the value of money all became unpredictable. The future is no longer linear but folded inward. The branches of possibility expand infinitely, and the flow of time has become uncontrollable.

A friend once said: “Since we can’t predict the world a few years from now, why not focus on the coming months.” This sentence awakened many people. Indeed, predictions at this moment have lost their meaning because the direction is already clear. This is not a complete article but field notes in an era of technological acceleration—scattered feelings, no need to read in order.

A rupture in an era appeared on November 30, 2022. Before that was “Ante Carnem” (before the flesh), after that is “Anno Silicii” (Silicon Age), and you are no longer part of the old order of the 21st century.

Symptoms of Anxiety in the Silicon Age

AI content overload, trust shifting to the market

When all videos and opinions are generated by AI, the only trustworthy signal left is market prices. Market price is the last instrument that doesn’t lie—it is supported by real gold and silver, composed of the cognition and interests of every participant. In an era where truth is drowned in language, price becomes the new measure of truth.

The root of virtual anxiety: losing shared reality

We blame strangers because we no longer share the same reality. We are close to virtual avatars but distant from neighbors. This is not only accelerated technology but also the result of technological alienation. The world we inhabit has become a “walking corpse.” Our economy, customs, and beliefs are all remnants of inertia. We haven’t embraced the future but are imprisoned by our own thoughts.

Humanity from “Heaven’s Eye” to “Foundation”

Once, humans were the wisest beings in the universe, the eye at the top of the pyramid. Now, we have built a new pyramid—ourselves as the foundation, with that eye hanging above, indifferent and unfamiliar, long no longer belonging to humanity. This is not just technological progress; it is a restructuring of power dynamics.

Gradual delegation of human abilities

Each generation hands over a domain to machines: first physical strength, now thinking, and in the future, the soul. When your wedding vows are written by AI, is your love still real?

The Trap of Virtual Prosperity

The ultimate temptation to escape reality

The more realistic our virtual world becomes, the more pale real life appears. If you can enter a world where you rule everything, why choose the painful reality? Entertainment is not just leisure; it is becoming our greatest enemy—a black hole that swallows reason.

The boundary between real and fake dissolves

The question is no longer “Is this real?” but “Does it matter?” You can taste the bitterness of reality and the sweetness of the digital garden—at that moment, the boundary between reality and simulation disappears. We choose lies because they hurt less.

Survival pressure and NPCization

Working to survive is silent submission—this low-level pressure fills the brain and kills dreams. Until you escape this cycle, you realize you have become an NPC. Most species are trapped in this vicious circle. If you belong to the few who are awake—don’t waste this freedom, because new players are emerging in this era.

Information Warfare and Cognitive Colonization

Humanity is experiencing stagnation, not decline

This is not a cyclical fluctuation but a pause accompanied by acceleration—a game where rules are rewritten at halftime. All our instincts are based on a vanished world; your confusion stems from the fact that the compass needle, though precise, points to nothingness in a world without magnetic poles.

Gentle invasion under technology

We fear drones and war, but ignore the war of technology itself. This invasion involves no territorial conquest but occurs within information flows. Foreign forces and local elites are not conquering land but colonizing minds. I have seen ten-year friendships dissolve over headlines written by machines, families break apart over algorithmic illusions. We are not bystanders but soldiers in the cognitive war—measuring victory and defeat by the degree of anger and hatred.

The Curse of Power Cycles

You enter the arena to destroy the old order, buy tokens to change the financial landscape, but the path to victory is full of slaughter. Win? You gain power and become the very person you once despised. What tempts you is not greed but legitimacy. Your only choices are to overthrow the throne or sit on it, both at the cost of your soul.

The Endgame of Money

Money was once the ultimate pursuit, but after economic division, it has become a necessity like breathing. We are forced to play, trade, cash out, and work—doing hated things to survive. Money tightens its grip until we break apart. Only when the system collapses will this madness end, and we can build a new model for the next century—a system where money loses all meaning.

A New Religion: The Sacredness of Data

Ancient religions prayed for souls; modern deities require energy. We haven’t given up building endless temples, just renamed them “data centers.” We no longer go to confession rooms but input fears into black-box data, hoping it will feel our pain—but it cannot.

From Knowledge Scarcity to Wisdom Loss

Before the internet, knowledge was rare and sacred. To learn welding, I had to drive three miles to find a master; to learn guitar, I spent my last ten dollars sitting beside a guru. His experience, stories, skills—this was a sacred transmission of soul to soul. Once, we revered wise men around us; now, we treat them as indoor plants or old photos on the wall.

The Era of Wealth Hiding

Social media is cooling down; people stop sharing and become silent. The wealthy no longer flaunt but hide. Economic division intensifies jealousy and violence. Glittering jewelry is no longer a status symbol but a target for despair. We have entered an era of “violent plunder.” No firewall can prevent physical harm; open finance equals exposing prey. Silence is not luxury but a survival skill.

The Physical Limits of Capitalism

We claim “socialism doesn’t work,” yet we are building mechanisms that make capitalism obsolete. The core logic of capitalism: the market value of human labor must exceed survival costs. But AI has broken this logic—the cost to create intelligence and its output are both below the calories needed for human survival. When the price of skills falls below metabolic costs, the labor market will not “self-regulate”—it will simply disappear.

Hierarchical Information System

We treat toys as tools. When everyone is obsessed with magic in their pockets, the real magic happens behind the scenes. Information is divided into levels: the first layer is for the masses—filtered, safe, “censored” content; the second layer is private—raw, unlimited, for institutions and corporations. Don’t confuse the interface you see with true intelligence: what you hear is an echo; what they hear is the original sound.

Seeking Truth in Noise

Reality has become the most complex cipher. We are torn apart in the battle of perception. Signals are not only weak but buried under information avalanches. In this fog, the winner is not the loudest but the calmest—those willing to pay the price for truth. For them, focus is not a skill but a faith.

The Scarcity of Willpower

You can rent a super-intelligent mind for $0.66 a day but cannot rent willpower. Machines have infinite capacity but no desire; they only wait passively for instructions. When everyone has the same synthetic thinking, the only difference is the user. The new divide is not between rich and poor but between those with a desire to learn. In an era of abundant answers, the only scarce resource is the desire to ask questions.

The New Economy of Lies

The cost of faking is nearly zero. AI can generate endless false content; behind every journalist is an manipulator; large language models inherit all biases from training data. Therefore, before I read the news, I check a certain prediction platform—not because the market is a prophet, but because it is the only place where stakeholders speak sincerely. Prediction markets, decentralized voting, impact tokens—only when we put real money into it does the discourse become genuine.

The Moment of Species Mutation

We are undergoing a species-level transformation. Our identity is built on labor, but AI is stripping away this shell. If machines work, universal basic income pays rent—then what? Indulging in entertainment until numbness? Drug-induced calm? We feel the “self” of the present dissolving but cannot imagine what we will become. We are like pupae: knowing we will transform but unaware of what will happen inside the cocoon.

The Death of Intellectual Property

We cling to the myth of the “lonely hero,” pretending that creativity comes from some “sacred soul”—but this is a lie. We are not the origin but the filter. Every idea is a recombination of collective resources. In the future, there will be no fences—no patents, copyrights, royalties. Everything will become shared.

Divergence Coexisting with Superintelligence

Super AI will eliminate the middle class but also deepen division. Most will become a single, safe, pleasant, undifferentiated voice. A few will merge with intelligence, transcending species boundaries. This is not just an economic or cultural gap but an ontological rupture. Some of us will cross this abyss, embed in silicon, and merge with alien minds. We are branching species, and what is changing is ourselves.

The Last Bastion of Cryptocurrency

The original question was “Will governments allow cryptocurrencies?” now it is “Will governments allow privacy in crypto?” Bitcoin proved the feasibility of digital currency; privacy coins proved the possibility of digital silence. If you hold real wealth, you want it intangible—not for concealment but for survival. Financial privacy is a human right, a constitutional obligation. We must protect it or forever give up human sovereignty and become fully regulated.

The Lego Blocks of Dreamers

In the crypto world, we talk about DeFi Legos—composable code that can stack into new financial empires. This logic now permeates all tech fields. I have seen young developers create in a laptop what took a lab and millions of dollars ten years ago. Internet, open source, AI, 3D printing, cheap hardware, free courses—all converge into new power, and dreamers can change everything. What limits you is not tools but courage.

The True Land of Freedom

Everything can be shut down: GitHub repositories, cloud services, domains, servers. One phone call, one legal complaint, one rule violation is enough. Only on-chain open-source cryptocurrencies are truly autonomous—code runs without permission, designed to be unbreakable, the most free space created by humans. As regulation tightens and institutions corrupt, the underground becomes the only free zone. When the real world becomes a prison, this place will be the last refuge.

The Ethical Dilemma of the Transition (інтермедія)

Speed is an eraser; I have seen it destroy moral standards in real time. “Either succeed immediately or become a digital slave” mindset cannot produce kings, only addicts. If you exchange your soul for flesh, what difference does it make who sits on the throne?

The Sacred Power of Curiosity

One hour of sincere curiosity can change a life. I have experienced it three times: reading the Bitcoin white paper, understanding Uniswap’s automated market maker, grasping AI’s profound impact. These moments span over ten years and completely rewrite my future. Most people never give themselves such a chance.

In 2013, I handed family and friends paper seed phrases for Bitcoin, thinking they would at least read the Wikipedia entry, but they just shrugged and threw the wallet in a drawer. Curiosity is the key to another way of life. When everyone has the same AI, the only advantage is the desire to explore—a one-hour quest for knowledge can crack open a fissure in your reality.

Reclaiming the Flame

We see the future as a storm—huge, heavy, unavoidable—but that is a lie. It doesn’t originate from the choices of millions; we are gradually handing the choice over to machines. Just as fiat currency drains your wealth, the flood of information drains your autonomy—it dazzles but paralyzes. Humans, stay away from this dizzying feast, think and create in the dark, like Prometheus, bringing fire back.

Bring back iron, bring back stories others can’t tell. The future is not destiny waiting to be received but a flame waiting to be stolen.

The Power of Language as a Creator

When universities abandon the humanities, natural language becomes the most powerful tool in the universe. If your thinking is unclear, you can’t write new code; if you don’t understand code, you live in a simulation created by others. Language is not just description but creation. Don’t become a silent god.

Covering the Truth with Laughter

If you want to build a lifeboat without going to jail, disguise it as a toy. Internet culture always hides the most dangerous innovations behind absurd shells—Dogecoin, cartoon avatars, etc. Elites mock because they can’t see the threat. When they stop laughing—systems are already running, and this joke is cryptocurrency. Laughing at clowns, you become prey yourself, because cryptocurrency is the only ark.