{"id":14523,"date":"2025-03-23T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/news\/?p=14523"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:11:00","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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the US government is accelerating its efforts to adopt Bitcoin, the EU together with the ECB are accelerating their efforts to adopt totalitarian money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14530\" style=\"width: 400px\" 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 has ideas for your money\" 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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the words of BIS Chairman; a CBDC gives <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cabsolute control over the expression of central bank liability\u201d.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14524\" style=\"width: 300px\" 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=\"ECB chair Lagarde excited for the future of the \u20acuro\" 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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the name of technology the 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Europe continues down this path it will become a totalitarian hellhole that will completely undermine the productivity of its citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14529\" style=\"width: 800px\" 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=\"Centrally controlled European currency not much in demand vs Freedom money - a Euro buys now barely above 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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14528\" style=\"width: 800px\" 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 buildings and crumbling infrastructure - the vision of Europe for the 21st century?\" 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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/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=\"\" 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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why I tell all my non-orange pilled European friends to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvn.io\/?deposit=vndwise&amp;settle=btc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">get <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201ca 1984 insurance policy\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Bitcoin)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, just in case the worst case scenario becomes true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good luck to my fellow European brothers and sisters, I wish you the best!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I\u2019m not staying around to see this shitshow play out over the next few decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s why I left Europe 8 years ago and don\u2019t see myself back possibly for the rest of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><\/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=\"\" 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><b>About the Author:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/duczko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lukas Duczko<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lukas has been a strong supporter of the local <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinsaigon.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitcoin community in Vietnam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blink.sv\/blog\/blink-completes-transaction-to-accelerate-growth-and-boost-support-of-bitcoin-communities-around-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently serving as COB of Blink Wallet<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, El Salvador\u2019s leading private Bitcoin company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article was <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/duczko\/status\/1898722311152254981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">originally published on <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udd4f<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and has been republished and translated with the author\u2019s permission.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lukas Duczko, Chairman of the Board at Blink While the US government is accelerating its efforts to adopt Bitcoin, the EU together with the ECB are accelerating their efforts to adopt totalitarian money.\u00a0 In the words of BIS Chairman; a CBDC gives \u201cabsolute control over the expression of central bank liability\u201d. 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