I recently saw a very interesting news. Bama Tea Group, which has sought to go public many times, went to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for listing again. This is a seemingly unimpressive company with no core technology. Its R&D expenses have been less than 1% for consecutive years, while its sales expenses are as high as 30%-40%. But what is interesting is that Mr. Wang, the major shareholder of Bama Tea, is not a simple person. He has linked the seven major families in the local area with his own strength. Mr. Wang's son married the daughter of Anta's boss, and he also has a daughter who married the son of the chairman of Gaoli Group. Another daughter married the son of the boss of Septwolves, and another son of the boss of Septwolves married a daughter of the boss of Xtep, and another daughter of the boss of Xtep married the son of the boss of Jiumuwang. The relationship between them is really confusing and confusing.
The glittering dynasties and wealthy families in history always loved to play a game called "strong alliance" - the Habsburg family in Europe ruled half of Europe through marriage, and the Chinese business tycoons used their children's marriages to weave a network of interests, as if this would last for thousands of years. But what was the ending? The Habsburg family gave birth to a bunch of princes with genetic diseases, and the business empires were either eliminated by new technologies or trapped in debt to survive.
The combination of all these sustainable advantages will eventually become a sacrifice of the new era!
The essence of a strong alliance is to put all your eggs into a basket that gets bigger and bigger, and Bitcoin is building a ship that no one can sink.
1. The Achilles' heel of the old world: No matter how strong a fortress is, it is afraid of being "locked"
The scripts of the decline of those wealthy families are surprisingly similar:
Inbreeding mentality: The Habsburg family only married “their own people”, resulting in genetic collapse; large companies used marriage to bind resources, but blocked the channel of innovation, and were finally overturned by small cross-border companies.
Centralized collapse: a king’s wrong decision will lead to the destruction of the country; a chairman’s wrong bet will lead to the collapse of the country. The more concentrated the power, the more fragile the system.
The trap of unlimited money printing: When the empire is short of money, it increases taxes and over-issues currency. The Ming Dynasty issued treasure notes, which caused hyperinflation. Once a modern central bank starts printing money, ordinary people’s deposits become waste paper in seconds.
The core logic of the old system is "control", and the cost of control is rigidity and corruption.
2. Bitcoin’s counterattack: How do the ants eat the elephant?
Imagine a group of ants, without a queen ant to command them, but relying on algorithms to automatically build nests and allocate resources. The death of any ant will not affect the entire colony - this is the survival philosophy of the Bitcoin network:
1️⃣ Decentralized Firewall
There is no board of directors, no in-laws, and the rules of the code are written into 20,000 nodes around the world. Want to destroy Bitcoin? Unless you hack more than half of the miners, developers, and ordinary coin holders at the same time, this is as difficult as reviving the entire Habsburg family.
2️⃣ 21 million "anti-inflation genes"
The king can over-issue currency, and the Federal Reserve can do unlimited QE, but Bitcoin’s algorithm makes it more punctual than a Swiss watch: production automatically cuts in half every four years, and it will stop issuing currency completely in 2140. This is the first time that humans have used mathematics to lock greed.
3️⃣ The real "strong alliance" is that everyone becomes stronger together
The marriage between Ba Ma Tea and Seven Wolves enriched the bosses’ families; while the computing power, code, and transaction network of Bitcoin are jointly built by millions of people around the world, and North Korean hackers and American aunts share the same set of ledgers. This is called a “community of interests.”
3. Tickets for the 2024 Noah’s Ark are now on sale
When you understand this, you will understand:
Credit Suisse's 167-year-old brand collapsed overnight, but Bitcoin is still alive after 10 "deaths"
The Argentine peso depreciated by 90% in one year, but Bitcoin took 15 years to rise from 0 to $70,000
While countries are frantically printing money to save the market, the Bitcoin halving countdown seems to be saying: "You are responsible for releasing water, and I am responsible for building lifeboats"
This is not a gambler's game, but a new species growing out of the cracks of the old order.
You can continue to believe in the castles built by kings, or you can choose to board the captainless ship that can never sink.
While the descendants of the Habsburgs were busy getting blood transfusions to protect their country, Satoshi Nakamoto's code was giving guns to every ordinary person.
Although Bitcoin has experienced a wave of volatility, we must always believe that the road may be tortuous, but the future is definitely bright.
