GM Brothers and Sisters When someone gains control over money, they may use that power for their own benefit. Looking back at history—from gold-backed currencies to today’s fiat money—monetary systems have always been shaped by centralized power. Today, governments and central banks can influence the purchasing power of money through monetary policy and the money supply. Inflation causes the money you worked hard to earn to gradually lose its value over time. Bitcoin was created to establish a monetary system that does not depend on any single authority. Satoshi Nakamoto identified the core of the problem: traditional money requires people to trust those in power, yet history has repeatedly shown that this trust is not always reliable. He therefore proposed a revolutionary approach: Don’t trust — verify. Bitcoin does not ask you to trust any particular bank, government, or individual. Through cryptography, proof-of-work, and a distributed network, participants around the world jointly maintain the system. Every node can independently verify transactions and reject any records that do not follow the rules. What does this mean? For thousands of years, humanity has struggled to escape the problem of monetary power being concentrated in the hands of a few. Bitcoin offers a different possibility: a monetary system that does not require blind trust in those in power, but instead allows anyone to verify the rules themselves. This may be Bitcoin’s truly revolutionary aspect. It is not merely an investment asset; it is a rethinking of money, power, and freedom. “Fix the money, fix the world.”