The modern banking “ecosystem” (call it that, laugh if you want) is a bureaucratic assembly line for bleeding people dry, one micro-fee at a time. It is engineered for extraction. Cybersecurity levy, stamp duties, maintenance, this, that, next week there will be a “climate resilience charge” or some new way to tax existence. And still, the trust is gone. Nobody reads the fine print. Nobody wins. All upside to the suits.

Banks eat your time. They eat your future.  Even the so-called safe savings melt away. Fiat is a melting ice cube, it has been for ever and will be forever. You can save ten years, and see it melt away, month by month, charge by charge, crisis by crisis, like background noise, like it is supposed to be normal.

Bitcoin changes that. There is no middleman skimming off your inertia. No silent leak. Nobody asking, “Have you considered our platinum account upgrade?” Just code, consensus, a record that doesn’t apologize. If you are lucky, you notice it early. If not, you notice it when it is almost too late.