Over the last four years, I’ve been immersed in the world of crypto.

I interviewed 110 of the top industry insiders, played in the protocols, tested the tools, and navigated the trenches of decentralization. I’ve seen the very best and worst this industry has to offer. And through it all, one thing remains clear:

I’m a Bitcoiner at heart.

Not because Bitcoin is the only crypto asset worth paying attention to—but because it’s the only one that got the first principles right.

Down the Rabbit Hole: Elections, Deplatforming and the Birth of a Crypto Ideologue

My journey didn’t start with a bullish tweet or a speculative investment.

It started with DeWeb.

I watched Parler get wiped off the internet. I watched a sitting U.S. president get deplatformed by tech bros who caved under pressure from federal authorities.

They didn’t resist. They folded.

A purge enforced by Marxist-indoctrinated college-grad “fact checkers” emboldened by DEI leadership.

It was the abandonment of meritocracy—and the ideals of free speech.

Then came the 2020 election. Unauditable voting machines. Vote counting with one party forcibly removed from the room. Clumsy mail-in ballots under COVID pretexts. Checks and balances failed. Courts refused to hear cases that could have brought clarity. 

Banks became social justice warriors, de-banking wrongspeakers. 

The mainstream “mockingbird” media parroted their scripted li(n)es. “Trust us. Don’t believe your lying eyes.” Everything they reported was the opposite of truth.

And it worked.

In this atmosphere of mass censorship and manipulated perception, I woke up to a terrifying truth: centralized power wasn’t just corrupt. It was dangerous.

And that’s when I discovered the idea of the decentralized web….

And that is what led me to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin: The Civil Disobedience of Code

To me, Bitcoin was a Declaration of Independence in math. No rulers. No central switches. No forced upgrades. No undo buttons.

And no inflation.

Just pure rules—no rulers. Censorship-resistant value. Permissionless participation. Immutable truth. It is civil disobedience encoded in a ledger.

And—a network.

Most of the crypto world forgot this.

Today, intervention is a feature. Management layers—attack vectors. Control is sold as convenience. Most of what calls itself “crypto” now looks eerily similar to what we were supposed to be leaving behind.

That’s why I keep pointing people back to the foundation:

The Unseen Engine: Economic First Principles of Crypto

Decentralization Isn’t a Tech Upgrade, It’s a Power Shift

Crypto Innovation, Bitcoin Integrity

Don’t get me wrong—I love the innovation. I’m a crypto fan-boy.

DAOs. NFTs. Tokenization. Infrastructure tooling. Liquidity layers. 

These are real advancements, and some of the brightest minds are building them. But they’re not being built on the best foundation.

Bitcoin is the most secure, most decentralized, and most reliable base layer in the world. It’s time to bring innovation home—to build atop Bitcoin.

That’s my next venture: bringing the composability of crypto and the reliability of Bitcoin together… with a critical use case no one is working on, in the one sector of our economies that can actually resolve the wealth gap via capitalism.

National Populism + Bitcoin: The Global Settlement Layer of a Fragmenting World

We’re in the Fourth Turning. 

If you don’t know that, wake up.

Across the globe, populist nationalism is on the rise.

The future will not be global governance. It will be local sovereignty. With mutually beneficial international ties.

Every nation will need a neutral, global settlement layer.

That’s Bitcoin.

With Bitcoin, nations can build strong nationalist fintech—outside the grasp of globalist monetary institutions like the IMF, BIS, or WEF.

Fintech that benefits the citizens, and the domestic economies they depend on.

It’s the ultimate paradox: the most decentralized technology in the world, enabling the most sovereign financial architectures imaginable.

Compare that to the “new” monetary system the old guard wants to build, and you’ll see they are up to their same old tricks. Propaganda is their hammer. You are their nail.

We Still Need the Infrastructure of Freedom

To fulfill the Bitcoin promise, money alone isn’t enough.

We need decentralized everything.

That means DEPIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) and DEWEB (Decentralized Internet). Decentralized media.

Decentralized finance (not DINO-Fi).

It means ownership AND control. Not just the shuffling around of paper assets controlled by the same puppet masters of yesterday’s corrupt systems.

Because without sovereignty in hardware, data, and speech—there’s no true freedom.

Read: The Uncensored Crypto Compact

Entrepreneurs Must Build the Next Civilization

The Fourth Turning won’t be solved by government committees or World Economic Forum initiatives.

The state will never build freedom. And corporations don’t work for you.

Only entrepreneurs can do this.

We are the builders of new systems. The architects of parallel economies. The last firewall between humanity and soft-totalitarianism.

If you believe in merit, not equity quotas… If you believe in sovereignty, not state permission… If you believe in truth, not narrative…

…then now is your time.

Bitcoin was the spark. What we build next will be the fire.

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Michael Hearne

I’m a serial entrepreneur, and I’ve spent the last 15 years taking companies to new levels, breaking the boundaries of innovation, and triumphing over adversity. My wife, Victoria, and I started our first business in a 2-bed/1-bath apartment with 4 kids, next to a crackhouse. We pushed through setbacks and failures to lift our family out of poverty. Along the way, I’ve learned that my struggles make me stronger. And that being the best version of me is the greatest contribution I can give to the world. It makes me a better husband, and father. It improves my health, energy, and my capacity to serve others. And it has allowed me to build businesses that make the world a better place. Today, I work for passion, to make a difference, and solve real problems in the real world through my business ventures. This little site is where I share the things I’ve learned, and am still learning, on my journey.