Bitcoiners we’ve met all get it. They have a story, a reason that drew them to this freedom money.
As Bitcoiners, here’s ours: we were debanked. 🇧🇷
We were born in Brazil with strong familial and professional ties to the country. In 1990, Brazil was in crisis. Inflation soared past 1,400%, prices were doubling every few weeks, and people’s savings were evaporating. The headlines told of a government plan to “save the economy.” But behind every policy was a private story …families like ours, quietly watching their hard-earned money disappear overnight.
This week also marks the anniversary of the Great Depression, which began in 1929 in America, where the world watched markets collapse and faith in money disintegrate in America.
Over half a century later, my family faced the same shock their parents had also faced in America in the 1930s. This time in a completely different country, under a completely different government, yet bound by the same lesson…
…when money is left in the hands of others, when we trust governments over self-sovereignty, access can vanish in an instant. And this wasn’t a market crash or a bank failure… it was a government-ordered seizure of access.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Within 48 hours of Fernando Collor de Mello taking office, his finance minister announced:
💥 All personal and business bank accounts would be frozen.
We, and millions of other Brazilians, woke up to find we could no longer access our own money.
DEBANKED OVERNIGHT.
Checking, savings, and investment accounts were confiscated by the government, “frozen” for 18 months. Businesses couldn’t make payroll. Families couldn’t buy homes, cars, or even groceries beyond what their limited cash allowed. The Plano Collor was a national trauma, a moment every Brazilian family of that era remembers. nostr:nprofile1qqsg798jjn53sg2gnlsy6mxt53sz4azamzuc7upynvzslepv4zhjp6spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg4waehxw309ahx7um5wghxjmn8wa5k2tndv5wntelh We didn’t lose our money because of bad investments; we lost it because the government decided to take it, claiming it was “for the good of the country.”
Our dad said we never saw that money again.
For my family, being debanked stripped them of their time, energy, and freedom …echoing the same fear that gripped families during the Great Depression in America.
It doesn’t matter where you live, what flag you fly, or who governs you …this can happen to anyone, anywhere.
Today, the foundation is cracking just the same. Around the world, currencies are inflating, debt is compounding, and governments are quietly debasing the value of our money to sustain systems that no longer serve, WE THE PEOPLE. Most don’t notice it happening, a little loss of purchasing power here, a little more reliance on credit there …until suddenly, the system feels stacked against you.
We’re blessed to have a Dad who gets it, who’s lived it, and understands what’s at stake if we don’t take the exit.
Bitcoin is the exit ramp: incorruptible, ruler-free, trauma-free, immune to erasure, it belongs to you, fully.
That’s why ₿itcoin. That’s why it matters to us and why we believe so deeply in helping those exit this corrupt system, and onboarding others to this freedom money.
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