As he recalls it, the words of the podcast faded as he crossed the Bay Bridge, and it was just him, the stars above, and the water below. He saw the future. It wasn’t about Bitcoin. It wasn’t about money. It was bigger than that. It was about the fundamental way human society is structured. Communities had been broken, left powerless and at the mercy of an elite group. But that was about to change. Blockchain technology would give people the capacity to rebuild society so that the individual could take control of his property, his identity, his destiny. It was almost . . . biblical.
