#BitcoinWithTariffs Got it! Here's a short fictional scenario exploring a post-Bitcoin world where tariffs have made a comeback — dramatic, gritty, and a little dystopian:

Title: “The Tariff Chain”

In the year 2047, fiat currencies had long been abandoned by most major economies. Bitcoin, once the wild child of finance, became the spine of the global monetary system. Decentralized, trustless, immutable—until the old powers found new ways to bend it.

Nations, now digital fortresses, didn't fight wars with missiles. They fought with algorithms, bandwidth, and most of all—tariffs. Every transaction crossing borders triggered smart-contract taxes. Buying a quantum chip from Taiwan? 12% border-chain fee. Selling a virtual land plot to a French investor? 8% culture protection tariff.

Even mining pools were taxed. Energy tariffs surged for any node suspected of processing foreign transactions. What was once a borderless economy became a heavily patrolled data stream.

The irony? Bitcoin had been designed to eliminate middlemen. But in this “post-freedom” era, the middlemen wore suits coded in Solidity and enforced by decentralized autonomous bureaucracies—DABs, not DAOs.

And somewhere, in the shadows of Layer 3, the cypherpunks plotted again.

Want it expanded into a longer story or styled a different way—like noir, cyberpunk, or political thriller?