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Cintasia Summer Mini-Series 2026 Edition –
Money, Politics & Technology –
Episode 4 –
This summer, let’s take a short break from industrial topics to explore one fundamental question shaping our world.
In this edition, we discuss over 4 short episodes :
• Episode 1 – Why Indonesia’s Central Bank Governor Resigned
• Episode 2 – Are Central Banks Really Independent?
• Episode 3 – Should Money Be Separated from the State?
• Episode 4 – The Technology That Changed Money Forever
⬇️ Episode 4
The Technology That Changed Money Forever.
If you have followed the first 3 episodes, you probably know where we are going.
Imagine a world where money is separated from the State.
Where no central bank could create unlimited money. No government could silently dilute your savings through inflation. No monetary system could be built on ever-growing debt.
This idea is not new. In 1984, Friedrich Hayek said that we could not take money away from governments by force, but perhaps “by some sly roundabout way” introduce something they could not stop.
What if that “something” arrived in 2009?
Bitcoin is not a company. It has no headquarters and no central bank behind it. It is an open-source computer protocol, launched in 2009, designed to allow people to transfer value directly, peer-to-peer, without a central authority.
Yves Choueifaty describes Bitcoin through five simple ideas: it is digital, difficult to counterfeit, peer-to-peer, decentralized, and limited to 21 million units.
That last point is revolutionary.
Jeff Booth argues that technology naturally creates deflation: better technology makes products and services cheaper.
Yet our debt-based monetary system tends to push prices in the opposite direction.
What would happen if technological deflation could finally coexist with a monetary system that cannot simply be expanded?
This is not TrumpCoin. It is not an altcoin. Bitcoin has no company to promote it and no CEO to replace. The thousands of other cryptocurrencies often make the subject more confusing than it needs to be.
Understanding Bitcoin properly takes several years. It requires you to study economics, monetary history, finance, computer science, cryptography, mathematics, game theory, energy, geopolitics and philosophy.
Just as the Internet transformed information, Bitcoin could transform money.
Will it?
I don’t know.
If Bitcoin is adopted on a massive scale, and if governments do not succeed in killing it, manipulating it or turning it into something it was never designed to be, its impact could be far greater than that of the Internet, even greater than electricity or the printing press.
That is the bet.
And with AI and digital technology accelerating so fast, I believe we will know the answer within our lifetime.
And perhaps that is the biggest bet of all.
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