Full disclosure: I love Bitcoin. (I’m a die-hard HODLer.)

But that doesn’t mean I’m rooting for the collapse of fiat.
I’m not. I’m advocating for a recalibration of value.

I don’t want fiat to collapse completely. If it does, too many people—those without the time, space, or awareness to understand the money/energy connection—will be left behind.

And if they’re too late to move their energy into something like BTC, we don’t just leave them behind, we also risk losing both systems.

That thought’s been sitting heavy. Not from fear, but from the quiet knowing that collapse, for all its drama, is rarely clean. Most people won’t be ready. Not because they’re unwilling, but because the game was never explained. The rules kept shifting. For many of us, money was already abstract by the time we were born—and over time, it drifted even further from anything grounded in reality.

So no, I don’t want fiat to burn.
I want it to be redeemed.

Fiat doesn’t need to die. It needs to be re-anchored to meaning. To energy. To truth. If we want to preserve any kind of stability, we need to fix what value means in the first place—not just swap currencies and hope for the best.

Because if fiat collapses entirely, Bitcoin might not stand as tall as we think. It needs a world to live in. People to use it. Systems to connect it to. If everything around it falls, what’s left to mirror its value back?

Maybe the deeper collapse isn’t of currency, but of integrity.
And maybe the path forward isn’t to blow it all up, but to fork it.

Let fiat rebuild—smaller, local, transparent.
Let Bitcoin anchor discipline and sovereignty.
And let new forms of value—rooted in care, creativity, and energy—emerge in the space between.

Because if fiat fails completely, the majority of people—those who never had a chance to understand or reallocate their energy—will suffer.

But if fiat can be restored with integrity, while Bitcoin and other decentralized assets rise alongside it, we might actually create a resilient, hybrid future.

We don’t need one to win and the other to fail.
We need systems that can speak to both the past and the possible.

That’s how we [collectively] survive the shift.
That’s how we build the next layer.

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Inspired by the H11 project.