{"id":14523,"date":"2025-03-23T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/news\/?p=14523"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:05:36","slug":"europe-vs-america-embracing-the-past-or-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/europe-vs-america-embracing-the-past-or-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe vs. America: Embracing the Past or the Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Lukas Duczko, Chairman of the Board at Blink<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the US government is accelerating its efforts to adopt Bitcoin, the EU, together with the ECB, is accelerating its efforts to adopt totalitarian money.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14530\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14530\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-07.jpg\" alt=\"BIS chairman Agustin Carstens seated at a conference\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-07.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-07-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-07-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-07-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-07-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BIS chairman Agustin Carstens has ideas for your money<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the words of the BIS Chairman, a CBDC gives <em>\u201cabsolute control over the expression of central bank liability.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meaning that, while the US is seemingly embracing its roots as a land of the free, Europe is embracing its roots as a continent of feudalism and serfdom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14524\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14524\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-06.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Lagarde speaking at the World Economic Forum\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-06.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-06-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-06-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-06-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ECB chair Lagarde excited for the future of the \u20acuro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the name of technology, European technocrats will launch a new era of Cold War East European totalitarianism, supported by the most advanced surveillance tools in history, AI, laws to enforce thought policing, and a new form of \u201cmoney\u201d that gives them absolute control over the time of their citizens.<\/p>\n<p>If Europe continues down this path, it will become a totalitarian hellhole that will completely undermine the productivity of its citizens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14529 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-05.jpg\" alt=\"Chart showing the euro price in Bitcoin satoshis near 1,000 sats\" width=\"800\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-05.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-05-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-05-768x319.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-05-696x289.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Centrally controlled European currency not much in demand vs Freedom money &#8211; a Euro buys now barely above 1,000 Sats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new Cuban-style continent will arise, where neighbors will report each other to the Central Thought Police Authorities and dissenters will be shipped off to the Thought Reeducation Camps.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Europe will become a curious museum of times gone, where people live \u201clike in the 90s\u201d and tourists from all over the world will come and watch how people lived in the past and what happens when the government takes total control of everything.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14528 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-04.jpg\" alt=\"Old European street with aging buildings and overhead wires\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-04.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-04-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-04-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old buildings and crumbling infrastructure &#8211; the vision of Europe for the 21st century?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some tourists may be kidnapped and accused of thought crimes against the power, like modern-day tourists to North Korea are sometimes whisked off to prison to never be seen again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14527\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-02.jpg\" alt=\"Barbed wire fence and prison watchtower\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-02-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-02-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In time, the misery of Europeans will get to the point that human smugglers will make good business shipping Europeans to the North African shores, from which they can seek a better life on other continents.<\/p>\n<p>And they will all have to leave with nothing but their clothes, because the CBDC regime has been so perfectly implemented that nobody can buy anything but confiscatable assets like securities held by EU custodians, paper gold and other commodities, and EU land, and all assets will be seized at exit.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I tell all my non-orange-pilled European friends to <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/?deposit=vndwise&amp;settle=btc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get <em>\u201ca 1984 insurance policy\u201d<\/em> (Bitcoin)<\/a>, just in case the worst-case scenario becomes true.<\/p>\n<p>I hope not, but Europe has a history of going overboard with insane ideologies and dystopian governance implementations, and the CBDCs and other modern technologies will enable them to take it further than was ever possible before in history.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to my fellow European brothers and sisters. I wish you the best!<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m not staying around to see this shitshow play out over the next few decades.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I left Europe eight years ago and possibly don\u2019t see myself back for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14526\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-01.jpg\" alt=\"Lukas Duczko with a man wearing a Bitcoin hat\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-01-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Europe-vs.-America-01-315x420.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/duczko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lukas Duczko<\/a> is a Europe-originating entrepreneur who relocated to Asia and Latin America after seeing his continent of origin heading down the wrong path for entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Lukas has been a strong supporter of the local <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinsaigon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin community in Vietnam<\/a> and is currently serving as COB of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blink.sv\/en\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blink Wallet<\/a>, El Salvador\u2019s leading private Bitcoin company.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/duczko\/status\/1898722311152254981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">originally published on \ud835\udd4f<\/a> and has been republished and translated with the author\u2019s permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas Duczko contrasts US Bitcoin adoption with Europe\u2019s CBDC path, warning that centralized digital money could deepen political control across society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3814,10551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-featured-sidebar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe vs. America: Embracing the Past or the Future? - BV Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While the US is accelerating its efforts to adopt Bitcoin, the EU together with the 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