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What if Bitcoin has always been the plan B of the system?
While the world celebrates the new boom of cryptocurrencies and analysts seek reasons in macroeconomic data, a more troubling question remains: what if Bitcoin was not created against the system, but from within, as insurance against its collapse?
For years, it has been argued that Bitcoin was a rebellion. That Satoshi Nakamoto launched the protocol in response to the 2008 financial crisis, as an anonymous, almost messianic gesture offering a radical alternative. But the story was not so simple, nor so romantic. Few ask why, despite the threats, the system has never managed to stop Bitcoin. It allowed it to grow, regulated it, and adapted to it.
Now, more than a decade later, institutional capital is flowing into Bitcoin ETFs, banks are exploring how to protect it, and governments are designing their own digital money using similar principles. The outsider has been tamed.
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A system-proof architecture
Bitcoin does not compete with the dollar nor seeks to replace it. What it does is expose it. It acts as an uncomfortable mirror that reflects what fiat money can no longer sustain: trust, scarcity, and sovereignty.
In this context, the hypothesis that Bitcoin could have been conceived as a controlled escape route makes more sense. Not as a conspiracy, but as a latent alternative architecture, ready to be activated should traditional money fail. And that activation is no longer something in the future; it is already happening.
Every time an economy devalues, Bitcoin emerges. Every time a central bank prints excessive amounts, the narrative of cryptocurrencies strengthens. And amid this apparent anarchy, a new consensus is consolidating: if the system falls, Bitcoin will already be standing.
Perhaps the question has never been whether Bitcoin would defeat the system, but whether it was designed to replace it.