Dan, just letting you know I've linked to your article in the July 2025 issue of idleguy.com. The article was the last thing I was working on, due to countless interruptions, and it just was going on and on, so I cut it a little short but will be updating. You can find it at https://idleguy.com/72025/8money.php
I wish I had more time. The topic of competing currencies and what exactly is "money" has plenty of variables and routes. We will see what the BRICS do in a few days. Referenced Vince Lanci's article as well, though I don't think he's on target. China isn't likely to announce their gold vaulting scheme until it's completely operational, which, as of next week, is not likely. Good luck going forward.
Thank you my friend. I'm very honored. BTW, I noticed several typos you may want to edit if you can, post publish. Thanks again for including my work and broadening the discussion. There are a lot of moving parts to it all. Yesterday, I added a first addendum to the post with Circle (maker of USDC) applying for the banking charter. I am honestly surprised that not more people in the crypto & Bitcoin spaces see what is being implemented under their very noses. How can they not see this and speak out?
Dan, great minds do think alike. I linked to an article about Circle's banking charter in my original idleguy.com article. Crypto is such a huge scam (Pam and Russ Martens over at Wall Street on Parade (https://wallstreetonparade.com/) have some great articles about it. If you haven't already, you might want to read some of their articles. Good stuff.
Anyhow, thanks for the heads up on my typos. I think I fixed them all and I added an update today on the BRICS summit and Trump's tariffs. Things are moving quickly.
Today was not a good day for inspiring faith in the U.S. government. Epstein had no list(s). Uh, huh. And I'm the tooth fairy. Americans are not going to like the next few acts in this drama. I'll leave it at that. Stay well.
We don't have a monetary problem, we have a political problem, if the current monetary system takes a dump, it's 100% planned, there are zero black Swans
It seems to me the main reason cash still exists is so the USA can fund underground activities. It may be difficult to pay mercenaries, rebels, start coups, etc., with traceable digital currencies. Biden shipped pallets of cash to Iran. Of course that may be why crypto has been allowed to grow. Cash poses a dichotomy. How do our masters eliminate it lwhile needing it for themselves?
That's a good point. The CIA works on dark money (a lot from the drug trade). Maybe some of this is from the missing $21t+ that could be physical cash and/or in digital form. Hard to say. Regardless, the criminal banksters always have ways and tricks to obfuscate these dirty funds.
Cryptography would be the most obvious way to obfuscate digital fund transfers. Which is why, I think, Bitcoin and the entire Crypto market it brought forth was not snuffed out like a match which many saw as likely. We saw what happened to Bernard von Nothaus’s precious metals backed Liberty Dollars, right? Moving into an all digital age means high-level fraudsters will require a cash replacement. Some years ago when I looked into Bitcoin I saw three scenarios.
1) Banksters will squash BTC.
2) BTC will squash the banksters
3) BTC is an integral part of the banksters grand scheme to reshape the economy without any inconvenience to themselves. I wanted to believe #2, but realistically #3 always made the most sense. Dark as it may be.
Yep, I'm with you on #3. I am more and more convinced that Bitcoin and its network was started by one or more intelligence agencies (most likely the CIA).
In order to give it a semblance of authenticity/independence, they created it it as such (semi-non-transparent, but of course still traceable) to convey the illusion of independence from their banking cartel shenanigans.
Now that Wall Street (Blackrock, JP Morgan, et al.) and the Gubberment (Strategic Bitcoin Reserve) have become bigly invested in it, I think they will continue to allow it to roll and increase greatly in price since it is to their financial advantage (that is why I recommended to folks to get some in my post).
They still, after all, through all the banking controls (KYC, AML, etc.) can control the on and off ramps whereby people can cash in the BTC for their Ponzi fiat.
But we need to keep in mind that even though the Bitcoin network seems/appears completely indestructible (in the absence of a 51% attack), I think they must have some kind of back door to kill it. So, people like Michael Saylor who are all in are arguably not very intelligent and poor risk managers, imo. Because if they do pull the plug, then bankruptcy ensues.
The way I see the plan, plebs will regularly use Stablecoins which are CBDCs in disguise. Bitcoin will be, as experts have stated many times, digital gold. Only a lot easier to move around unseen.
I know many are thinking with effort BTC can be traced across the blockchain. True. But nobody it seems has cracked its military grade 256 Bit encryption and although it can be done very few outside of elite agencies possess the resources to disseminate its on chain pathway. For the most part it is the digital doppelgänger of paying with cash or gold bars. And, like piles of cash or gold, only a relatively small percentage of normies actually “own” BTC. ETFs not withstanding.
Money is power. The legacy families who see ownership as their birthright are formidable and have two goals. They do not want anyone beneath them to have too much purchasing power particularly on things they do not approve of. Nor are they fond of an expanding population nipping at their resources in the face of our replacement technology. They view population as a parasitic drain on what’s rightfully theirs. They have never been particularly good at sharing have they?
Saylor, Max Kaiser, Kathy Woods, and the rest of the BTC gang that make the rounds remind me of the handful of certain doctors we saw over and over that billed themselves as Covid/mRNA dissidents. Funny how it never grows beyond them, no?
Great piece as always Dan. I am not sure why, but I am not seeing your content come up in my feed. I think substack has separated all the bad kids in the classroom 😂
Thanks Brett. Yes, I've noticed a huge drop in new subscribers on Substack. I'll have to inquire about this with Substack. Shadow banned on X and now seemingly here. Probably just a matter of time before Carney sends his Stripe Hit Squad my way...
Talk about shadow banning, don't get on Google's bad side. They just don't even index my pages to a large extent citing various canonical issues which I've fixed and fiddled with far too often. They're rotten to the core. I showed over 5,000 impressions mid-June on my idleguy.com site. They showed 87. Yep, 87. That's not a typo. Come to find that after indexing over 700 pages initially, now they're only indexing about 90, and I keep adding pages like every day. They suck </rant>
Yes indeed. Getting people to wake up is hard. They can't even see the massive chem spraying in our skies on a near daily basis. Not sure what it will take anymore :-(
I have an engineer friend who does not believe in chemtrails. He's done work for the gvmt., so, I guess he's required to say the right things. Heck, those things are so obvious, I even convinced my father (RIP) when he was in his 80s. Being a WWII vet, he was not very amused.
Hey Seeds. Interesting you mention "satellite web." I didn't include Elon Musk's own project on this, as it would have made my piece even way too longer. But it is certainly part of the surveillance dragnet that is being set up. It kind of reminds me of the 1998 film Enemy of the State with Gene Hackman & Will Smith. Only now we are pretty much all the targets and the tools are even way more sophisticated.
Funny you should mention one of my all time favorite movies. Gene Hackman as Brill was an exceptional character portrayed brilliantly by possibly the greatest actor of the past 50 years.
Anyhow, thank you for this piece. It's very coherent for even general audiences. I intend to link to it and will certainly (I'm on deadline) promote it in the July issue of idleguy.com. Your presentation is well-researched, and, if even half of this is true (I'm of similar mindset as you, generally), we in the US are in for a world of hurt. I was looking at buying rural property in Tennessee. I am now again leaning towards Bulgaria or Kazachstan. I'll be in touch. Just a question. How do you assess Google's role in all of this? Surely, you have an opinion on them.
Thank you Rick for your comment and considering adding a link to my article for your July issue of Idleguy, I was looking at your previous issue on the new monetary system. Lot of good ideas to ponder.
Lots of freedom-loving people are attracted by Tennessee, but also don't consider better alternatives in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia where cost of living is a lot more affordable and governments actually leave you alone.
The only real solution that Canadians have is our ownership of ( BOC ) Bank of Canada, Canada is the only Country in the G7 that is not a BIS Reserve Bank. There are 3 things that BOC can do for Canadians, stop borrowing money from the BIS and paying interest charges, issue our own debt free, interest free currency, do not cross the red line into a digital currency, easier said than done, Canadians are fighting a 5 headed hydra monster, who is trying to make the BOC into one of their Reserve Banks. Little bit history, this is how it all started, after 1974 Pierre Trudeau thru the BOC stopped lending to federal and provincial governments and forced them to borrow from private foreign lender (BIS) at compound interest rates resulting in huge deficits and debt ever since. Here we are today in debt up to our eyeballs, now those private lenders aka BIS want to steal the ownership of the BOC. If they ever accomplish this, say good bye to Canada forever. Welcome to the beast's NWO, Carney/Trudeau are the BIS quarter backs to destroy Canada. I dearly hope Canadian are smarter than that and rise up and demand a debt free, interest currency issued by the Bank of Canada, God Bless and Save Canada
Indeed. I also exposed how papa Trudeau sold us out in 1974 as linked for my 1st article on the BIS.
Carney is indeed an agent for the banking cabal, enjoying full immunity from prosecution since he worked for the FSB which is part of the BIS. Immunity is "for life."
The BOC can easily cut ties to the BIS since there is no legally binding obligations to do anything it mandates. And, did you know that there's a Canadian law in place that actually could remove BIS immunities?
- Bank for International Settlements (Immunity) Act
Here's a partial excerpt from my addendum on this:
[BEGIN]It’s a bit odd that there is this exception clause. The text of clause 4 specifies that for reasons of “national security” or “for the purposes of the conduct of Canada’s international affairs” or for the “implementation of Canada’s international obligations” the Governor in Council (i.e., the Governor General of Canada acting on the advice of the Cabinet led by the Prime Minister) can basically remove all the immunities granted to the BIS (in clauses 2 & 3).[END]
So, as you can see, Canada could very easily remove this BIS immunity bullshit if it wanted to.
Here is a link to my full addendum:
- 4.1.1 Canadian Law: Bank for International Settlements (Immunity) Act - Addendum added on 2024-12-03 at 9:25 am:
I'll take a shot. Gold is essentially collateral. Backing. You can trade in whatever currency you like, but if you have gold in hand (or in vault), you're, well, golden. As far as loaning it out at interest, it is done all the time. Gold leases pay out 2-3% on the principal (gold). There are lots of companies who do this on an individual level, i.e., you, me, small businesses, like Alpine and the Goldbacks people. I'm not absolutely certain exactly how it works in practice, but it's out there, and has been for a long time. Some people believe that Fort Knox won't be audited because much of the gold has been out on leases, thus, not necessarily the province of the U.S. government or Federal Reserve (take your pick).
What I have always considered as the main reason to hold gold and/or silver is its use as collateral. Say I want to buy a car. Now, usually, the car is collateral, but, I could put up gold or silver instead. Precious metals have value and should be used as BASE MONEY, which is why the BRICS, et. al. are going to dominate. Who is going to want shitcoins when you can have currency backed by gold and silver. Silver is soon to let its presence be known. Being the money of gentlemen, it's due for a major revival, especially in South America.
It is very interesting that the East and emerging countries will be backed by Gold and maybe National currency > and the West will put us all in everlasting occupational tyranny with the Central Bank digital currency. I like the idea of being backed by something real > like Gold or other rare commodity, which can not take on crazy expansion and increase in quantity eg. quantitative easing.// I am watching my own country zombified by propaganda TV and entirely unaware of any world reality at all in most of the people . This post is a classic > Requiring time and thinking power the zombies click on watching for the next fleeting entertainment.
Thank you Dan
You're welcome!
Dan, just letting you know I've linked to your article in the July 2025 issue of idleguy.com. The article was the last thing I was working on, due to countless interruptions, and it just was going on and on, so I cut it a little short but will be updating. You can find it at https://idleguy.com/72025/8money.php
I wish I had more time. The topic of competing currencies and what exactly is "money" has plenty of variables and routes. We will see what the BRICS do in a few days. Referenced Vince Lanci's article as well, though I don't think he's on target. China isn't likely to announce their gold vaulting scheme until it's completely operational, which, as of next week, is not likely. Good luck going forward.
Thank you my friend. I'm very honored. BTW, I noticed several typos you may want to edit if you can, post publish. Thanks again for including my work and broadening the discussion. There are a lot of moving parts to it all. Yesterday, I added a first addendum to the post with Circle (maker of USDC) applying for the banking charter. I am honestly surprised that not more people in the crypto & Bitcoin spaces see what is being implemented under their very noses. How can they not see this and speak out?
Dan, great minds do think alike. I linked to an article about Circle's banking charter in my original idleguy.com article. Crypto is such a huge scam (Pam and Russ Martens over at Wall Street on Parade (https://wallstreetonparade.com/) have some great articles about it. If you haven't already, you might want to read some of their articles. Good stuff.
Anyhow, thanks for the heads up on my typos. I think I fixed them all and I added an update today on the BRICS summit and Trump's tariffs. Things are moving quickly.
Today was not a good day for inspiring faith in the U.S. government. Epstein had no list(s). Uh, huh. And I'm the tooth fairy. Americans are not going to like the next few acts in this drama. I'll leave it at that. Stay well.
We don't have a monetary problem, we have a political problem, if the current monetary system takes a dump, it's 100% planned, there are zero black Swans
It seems to me the main reason cash still exists is so the USA can fund underground activities. It may be difficult to pay mercenaries, rebels, start coups, etc., with traceable digital currencies. Biden shipped pallets of cash to Iran. Of course that may be why crypto has been allowed to grow. Cash poses a dichotomy. How do our masters eliminate it lwhile needing it for themselves?
That's a good point. The CIA works on dark money (a lot from the drug trade). Maybe some of this is from the missing $21t+ that could be physical cash and/or in digital form. Hard to say. Regardless, the criminal banksters always have ways and tricks to obfuscate these dirty funds.
Cryptography would be the most obvious way to obfuscate digital fund transfers. Which is why, I think, Bitcoin and the entire Crypto market it brought forth was not snuffed out like a match which many saw as likely. We saw what happened to Bernard von Nothaus’s precious metals backed Liberty Dollars, right? Moving into an all digital age means high-level fraudsters will require a cash replacement. Some years ago when I looked into Bitcoin I saw three scenarios.
1) Banksters will squash BTC.
2) BTC will squash the banksters
3) BTC is an integral part of the banksters grand scheme to reshape the economy without any inconvenience to themselves. I wanted to believe #2, but realistically #3 always made the most sense. Dark as it may be.
Yep, I'm with you on #3. I am more and more convinced that Bitcoin and its network was started by one or more intelligence agencies (most likely the CIA).
In order to give it a semblance of authenticity/independence, they created it it as such (semi-non-transparent, but of course still traceable) to convey the illusion of independence from their banking cartel shenanigans.
Now that Wall Street (Blackrock, JP Morgan, et al.) and the Gubberment (Strategic Bitcoin Reserve) have become bigly invested in it, I think they will continue to allow it to roll and increase greatly in price since it is to their financial advantage (that is why I recommended to folks to get some in my post).
They still, after all, through all the banking controls (KYC, AML, etc.) can control the on and off ramps whereby people can cash in the BTC for their Ponzi fiat.
But we need to keep in mind that even though the Bitcoin network seems/appears completely indestructible (in the absence of a 51% attack), I think they must have some kind of back door to kill it. So, people like Michael Saylor who are all in are arguably not very intelligent and poor risk managers, imo. Because if they do pull the plug, then bankruptcy ensues.
The way I see the plan, plebs will regularly use Stablecoins which are CBDCs in disguise. Bitcoin will be, as experts have stated many times, digital gold. Only a lot easier to move around unseen.
I know many are thinking with effort BTC can be traced across the blockchain. True. But nobody it seems has cracked its military grade 256 Bit encryption and although it can be done very few outside of elite agencies possess the resources to disseminate its on chain pathway. For the most part it is the digital doppelgänger of paying with cash or gold bars. And, like piles of cash or gold, only a relatively small percentage of normies actually “own” BTC. ETFs not withstanding.
Money is power. The legacy families who see ownership as their birthright are formidable and have two goals. They do not want anyone beneath them to have too much purchasing power particularly on things they do not approve of. Nor are they fond of an expanding population nipping at their resources in the face of our replacement technology. They view population as a parasitic drain on what’s rightfully theirs. They have never been particularly good at sharing have they?
Saylor, Max Kaiser, Kathy Woods, and the rest of the BTC gang that make the rounds remind me of the handful of certain doctors we saw over and over that billed themselves as Covid/mRNA dissidents. Funny how it never grows beyond them, no?
Thanks very much for linking to the White Rose Wiki's United Nations Foundation page. Very pleased you've found it useful!
I linked to the UN Foundation here, but not the White Rose here (but in Part 1 of my Covid-19 series).
Great piece as always Dan. I am not sure why, but I am not seeing your content come up in my feed. I think substack has separated all the bad kids in the classroom 😂
Thanks Brett. Yes, I've noticed a huge drop in new subscribers on Substack. I'll have to inquire about this with Substack. Shadow banned on X and now seemingly here. Probably just a matter of time before Carney sends his Stripe Hit Squad my way...
Talk about shadow banning, don't get on Google's bad side. They just don't even index my pages to a large extent citing various canonical issues which I've fixed and fiddled with far too often. They're rotten to the core. I showed over 5,000 impressions mid-June on my idleguy.com site. They showed 87. Yep, 87. That's not a typo. Come to find that after indexing over 700 pages initially, now they're only indexing about 90, and I keep adding pages like every day. They suck </rant>
There are a lot of accounts I follow where I don't see any of their content unless I look them up.
Such a comprehensive account of the crimes of the banking cartels and governments.
Getting people to pay attention is the hardest part.
Invaluable information Dan
Yes indeed. Getting people to wake up is hard. They can't even see the massive chem spraying in our skies on a near daily basis. Not sure what it will take anymore :-(
I have an engineer friend who does not believe in chemtrails. He's done work for the gvmt., so, I guess he's required to say the right things. Heck, those things are so obvious, I even convinced my father (RIP) when he was in his 80s. Being a WWII vet, he was not very amused.
Well Dan there are at least two big rays of hope.
The morally corrupt and criminally violent are incapable of living in peace!
They like making war on us.
To rob us of our place at the table.
They are inevitably at war with each other.
Over who gets the biggest share of the pie.
They do not believe in the One.
Just the other one.
So they are oblivious to the fact that the One can act decisively.
The satellite web needed to control the world, is as flimsy as the webs of lies these poisonous spiders weave!
The One is not impressed with the Shelobs of the world!
The One can sever their webs and deal effectively with them in an instant!
Moral corruption and criminal violence are fatal flaws.
Those who practice evil are tragically doomed to destruction.
Hey Seeds. Interesting you mention "satellite web." I didn't include Elon Musk's own project on this, as it would have made my piece even way too longer. But it is certainly part of the surveillance dragnet that is being set up. It kind of reminds me of the 1998 film Enemy of the State with Gene Hackman & Will Smith. Only now we are pretty much all the targets and the tools are even way more sophisticated.
Funny you should mention one of my all time favorite movies. Gene Hackman as Brill was an exceptional character portrayed brilliantly by possibly the greatest actor of the past 50 years.
Anyhow, thank you for this piece. It's very coherent for even general audiences. I intend to link to it and will certainly (I'm on deadline) promote it in the July issue of idleguy.com. Your presentation is well-researched, and, if even half of this is true (I'm of similar mindset as you, generally), we in the US are in for a world of hurt. I was looking at buying rural property in Tennessee. I am now again leaning towards Bulgaria or Kazachstan. I'll be in touch. Just a question. How do you assess Google's role in all of this? Surely, you have an opinion on them.
Thank you Rick for your comment and considering adding a link to my article for your July issue of Idleguy, I was looking at your previous issue on the new monetary system. Lot of good ideas to ponder.
Lots of freedom-loving people are attracted by Tennessee, but also don't consider better alternatives in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia where cost of living is a lot more affordable and governments actually leave you alone.
FANTASTIC WORK DAN.
Thank you Ronin.
The only real solution that Canadians have is our ownership of ( BOC ) Bank of Canada, Canada is the only Country in the G7 that is not a BIS Reserve Bank. There are 3 things that BOC can do for Canadians, stop borrowing money from the BIS and paying interest charges, issue our own debt free, interest free currency, do not cross the red line into a digital currency, easier said than done, Canadians are fighting a 5 headed hydra monster, who is trying to make the BOC into one of their Reserve Banks. Little bit history, this is how it all started, after 1974 Pierre Trudeau thru the BOC stopped lending to federal and provincial governments and forced them to borrow from private foreign lender (BIS) at compound interest rates resulting in huge deficits and debt ever since. Here we are today in debt up to our eyeballs, now those private lenders aka BIS want to steal the ownership of the BOC. If they ever accomplish this, say good bye to Canada forever. Welcome to the beast's NWO, Carney/Trudeau are the BIS quarter backs to destroy Canada. I dearly hope Canadian are smarter than that and rise up and demand a debt free, interest currency issued by the Bank of Canada, God Bless and Save Canada
Indeed. I also exposed how papa Trudeau sold us out in 1974 as linked for my 1st article on the BIS.
Carney is indeed an agent for the banking cabal, enjoying full immunity from prosecution since he worked for the FSB which is part of the BIS. Immunity is "for life."
The BOC can easily cut ties to the BIS since there is no legally binding obligations to do anything it mandates. And, did you know that there's a Canadian law in place that actually could remove BIS immunities?
- Bank for International Settlements (Immunity) Act
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/b-1.5/page-1.html
Here's a partial excerpt from my addendum on this:
[BEGIN]It’s a bit odd that there is this exception clause. The text of clause 4 specifies that for reasons of “national security” or “for the purposes of the conduct of Canada’s international affairs” or for the “implementation of Canada’s international obligations” the Governor in Council (i.e., the Governor General of Canada acting on the advice of the Cabinet led by the Prime Minister) can basically remove all the immunities granted to the BIS (in clauses 2 & 3).[END]
So, as you can see, Canada could very easily remove this BIS immunity bullshit if it wanted to.
Here is a link to my full addendum:
- 4.1.1 Canadian Law: Bank for International Settlements (Immunity) Act - Addendum added on 2024-12-03 at 9:25 am:
https://fournier.substack.com/i/152446721/canadian-law-bank-for-international-settlements-immunity-act-addendum-added-on-at-am
Greetings Dan, I appreciate this work. One philosophical query to put out there... can gold be loaned out at interest?
I'll take a shot. Gold is essentially collateral. Backing. You can trade in whatever currency you like, but if you have gold in hand (or in vault), you're, well, golden. As far as loaning it out at interest, it is done all the time. Gold leases pay out 2-3% on the principal (gold). There are lots of companies who do this on an individual level, i.e., you, me, small businesses, like Alpine and the Goldbacks people. I'm not absolutely certain exactly how it works in practice, but it's out there, and has been for a long time. Some people believe that Fort Knox won't be audited because much of the gold has been out on leases, thus, not necessarily the province of the U.S. government or Federal Reserve (take your pick).
What I have always considered as the main reason to hold gold and/or silver is its use as collateral. Say I want to buy a car. Now, usually, the car is collateral, but, I could put up gold or silver instead. Precious metals have value and should be used as BASE MONEY, which is why the BRICS, et. al. are going to dominate. Who is going to want shitcoins when you can have currency backed by gold and silver. Silver is soon to let its presence be known. Being the money of gentlemen, it's due for a major revival, especially in South America.
Not sure. I'd ask a precious metals expert on this.
typo in your article: ".... almost nobody ever(y) reads"
Fixed it. Thanks for spotting it. I'm bound to miss a few when there's over 15k words and my eyes get a bit tired with the 5-hour proofread ;-)
Dan Fournier
Thanks for the very sound and enlightening piece on the emerging financial systems.
Sincerely Paul Scott
You're welcome Paul.
It is very interesting that the East and emerging countries will be backed by Gold and maybe National currency > and the West will put us all in everlasting occupational tyranny with the Central Bank digital currency. I like the idea of being backed by something real > like Gold or other rare commodity, which can not take on crazy expansion and increase in quantity eg. quantitative easing.// I am watching my own country zombified by propaganda TV and entirely unaware of any world reality at all in most of the people . This post is a classic > Requiring time and thinking power the zombies click on watching for the next fleeting entertainment.
Since Western leaders are dishonest by nature, they will never use honest money like gold.
This issue interests me.
Gold is still in circulation.
But tons are apparently hoarded in the heavily fortified City of London.
Probably elsewhere too.
So is free circulation a reality or really just a pretense?
How much gold is in circulation compared to that being hoarded?
Is all gold slowly being withdrawn from circulation?
If the big power players have all or most, of the gold and precious metals...?
What use is gold in the free trade market?
Only really useful for big transactions between the big power players?
No free trade market?
Enslaved population that is excluded from the marketplace?
If the BPPs own all the gold and precious metals, plus practically everything else, what do they need money for?
What value has the gold or precious metals?
We own all the real money!
You own nothing!
Checkmate in the money game!
Bitcoin and other digital money ... ?
Fools gold!
Like fiat money.
One wonders.