Original title: Crypto 2029: The New Order
Original author: @hmalviy a9
Original translation: zhouzhou, BlockBeats
Editors note: In 2030, the world collapsed, and Bitcoiners on the island built a fortress, and the real restart quietly took place in the ruins. Technology and spirituality merged, and the Secret Ring united with crypto idealists to reject consumerism and control and rebuild values and beliefs. Decentralized soul became the slogan, and the future was not in the upper class, but was rewritten underground.
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Crypto in 2029: The New Order
Bitcoin has become the new normal for investors around the world. This year, its price broke the $500,000 mark—not in a sudden surge, but after a decade of sustained competition, with narratives flipped, governments finally giving in, and institutions having to adjust the rules. Today, billions of people around the world are trying to accumulate sats—the smallest unit of Bitcoin. Just as people used to buy gold jewelry to pass on wealth, families now sit together to calculate how many sats they can leave to the next generation.
Satoshi has become a whole new asset class — no regulation is needed to prove its value. They are purchased like collectibles, stored in decentralized “vaults”, and passed down from generation to generation as new heirlooms. Millennials who once scoffed at Bitcoin in their 20s are now experiencing unprecedented FOMO (fear of missing out). This competition is no longer about status, but about survival. Satoshi is not only money, it is also a passport — a passport to community, resources and security.
Bitcoin has become the most popular financial instrument in human history, surpassing gold, stocks, and even government bonds. The asset with the highest return over the past two decades is now included in every financial advisors operating manual. Account managers who once specialized in selling mutual funds and insurance products now sell Bitcoin with the same well-trained smile and tone.
Even government finance ministries in developed countries now hold BTC as a hedging asset - something that was unimaginable ten years ago. More than 100 listed companies around the world hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets. It is no longer just a hedge tool, but the underlying cornerstone of the new economic order.
Those who have held on to Bitcoin since its early days and did not sell when the world questioned it have now become a new elite class - they do not show off their wealth, but are defining the future. They call themselves Bitcoiners. But this is not just an identity label, it is a movement, a philosophy, and a new religion. The moral pillars of this religion are: monetary freedom, self-education, and non-traditional forms of marriage contracts.
They drafted their own laws, wrote their own code, and built alliances that rejected state control. They did what governments feared most — they exited the system.
They built Bitcoin Island, a sovereign island nation somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, funded entirely by Bitcoin. Initially with just 100 citizens, the island now has more than 10,000 Bitcoin believers - mostly early adopters, developers, investors, and thinkers.
The island has its own passport and decentralized identity system, and has become a tourist destination: blue sea and blue sky, tax-free haven, psychedelic rituals, and privacy weapons. Things that are illegal elsewhere have become legal and feasible here through self-regulation. Every transaction is recorded on the public chain - but freedom remains absolute.
However, the island began to decay.
Bitcoin believers, who have become billionaires, begin to treat outsiders as inferiors. A quiet colonial mentality is brewing. They exchange satoshis for services - but their tone is full of imperial superiority. They seek not cooperation, but obedience. As the outside world collapses economically, the island sees itself as the new center of power - building the next America. The poor and exiles outside are willing to submit in order to survive. Bitcoin believers no longer hide their dominance - they begin to embrace it.
And at the core of all this is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Bitcoins pseudonymous founder has become a deity. And not just a metaphorical deity. There are now more than 100 Nakamoto temples around the world. Weekly rituals are held - people chant SHA-256 hashes and meditate on the principles of decentralization. The temples are also recruitment centers. Potential believers are screened and those who pass are sent to Bitcoin Island for training. The religious fervor surrounding Satoshi Nakamoto has reached miraculous levels - his white paper is now seen as a new Bhagavad Gita, Koran and Bible combined.
But beyond the island lies another world.
The global economy has completely collapsed. The US debt bubble has finally burst. The post-Bretton Woods financial order, unable to withstand the pressure of artificially manipulated markets, has collapsed one after another. Inflation has soared to unprecedented levels, the fiat currency system has collapsed, savings have been wiped out, and people have lost their jobs, homes, and even their sanity.
AI agents—trained on the collective memory of the entire internet—have taken over white-collar jobs. Programmers, writers, lawyers, consultants, all replaced. Even psychologists have been replaced by hyper-personalized AI companions. While companies use AI to improve efficiency, they have also laid off millions of employees. Human inefficiency is no longer tolerated, and we have been optimized to almost disappear.
To escape reality, people turned to the metaverse.
The new toy for the middle class is no longer a car or a house, but a VR headset. It has become a window to a better life - the only place worth living. In the metaverse, they can design their own houses, lovers, and jobs. They have become the creators in the sandbox.
Relationships have shifted, with physical intimacy replaced by sensory simulation. People spend 80% of their time in virtual worlds, and 90% of conversations happen in digital spaces. Families are just a few avatars sharing a virtual room.
The sense of touch disappeared, eye contact was forgotten, consciousness began to blur, reality became irrelevant.
The real world is getting darker and darker.
Rumors of nuclear war became commonplace. Every nation had its hand on the launch button, and everyone felt threatened. The news was filled with rumors of war every day, and major cities began to re-practice evacuation drills. Children were taught how to survive. The world fell into a collective panic, and the Metaverse became the only place where people felt safe.
But in the chaos, some heroes emerged.
They have no capes, nor are they billionaire spokespeople. They are teachers, programmers, philosophers. They have no weapons, only consciousness. These people, often called the Hidden Circle, began to help others unplug, teaching people how to breathe, how to feel, how to find the meaning of being alive. But before they can awaken others, they must first clean up their own inner world - the forgotten spiritual ecosystem.
Spirituality has long become a business. Workshops, courses, master coins, every dojo has become a downloadable, paid app. Those with ulterior motives have turned healing into a performance, using false inner peace to defraud money. People have begun to feel betrayed by the concept of inner practice, and the word spirituality has gradually lost its meaning.
So, those superheroes began to reclaim this space. They returned to the original classics, practiced in silence, and helped others one-on-one. There were no price tags, no social labels, only pure intentions. They were slowly rebuilding a new culture - not a culture based on power or escape, but a balance.
Some of them still believe in cryptocurrency - not the casino it has become, but the technology behind it: cryptography, privacy protection, and decentralized circulation of value. They believe that technology still has the power to liberate. But what breaks their hearts the most is watching the crypto world become a scam.
The tools they once admired are now being used to deceive innocent people. Worthless meme coins, Ponzi farms on the blockchain, and the leeks-cutting game where Internet celebrities harvest fans... People have lost trust and see the crypto world as a playground for the dark web. And those original believers - cryptographers - can only watch their dreams shattered.
But they didnt give up.
A new movement was born: The Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto 2.0.
This is not just a text, it is a digital charter. It calls for builders, not traders. It aims to form an alliance of companies that truly believe in the spirit of encryption - transparency, privacy, and value equality. They start to build tools instead of speculating on coins; build systems instead of creating speculation. A new era begins.
The Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto 2.0 spread like wildfire through encrypted channels, was tattooed on QR codes, whispered in underground gatherings, and infiltrated the zero-knowledge network. It does not promise wealth, but only requires integrity.
It named and criticized the extremists who have become oligarchs, questioned every project that claims to change the world but is only for pumping. And most importantly, it reminded the world: the reason for the existence of Bitcoin - and the entire crypto world - is to arm those institutions that monopolize trust.
This underground revival is not dazzling.
There were no extravagant conferences. No influencers appeared on stage.
Just Git commits. Research papers. Anonymous nodes reconnecting like dormant brain neurons.
One after another, small collectives regrouped in abandoned buildings, forests, and converted bunkers.
They are not only writing code, but also thinking about philosophy: Can identity be reconstructed without government intervention?
Is it possible for children born in 2030 to not be monitored throughout their lives?
Can value be distributed through protocol incentives rather than profit-driven?
In this silent storm, the secret circle and crypto-anarchists began to converge.
They realized that true freedom could not be just technological or just spiritual—it had to be both.
One cannot meditate in a surveillance state;
And privacy technology is meaningless if people remain empty inside.
So, they began the fusion - the fusion of code and consciousness.
They don’t wear robes or develop blockchains for billionaires.
They built libraries for free thinkers and opened nodes in temples.
Their Dharma is continuous online (uptime), and their mantra is: Verify, then trust.
They practice encryption like ascetics pray—sacredly, precisely, for others.
By 2030, a new whisper begins to spread in the most unlikely corners of the world:
Decentralized Soul.
No one knows who first said this, but it has become the slogan of the new era.
The Bitcoiners on that island built a fortress; but the real future is being built piece by piece from the ruins - by those who still remember why we set out.
This reboot is not going to come from above. Its starting from below.
Silent. Unwavering. Decentralized.
