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The Day the Money Died: Nixon, 1971, and the Fiat Fallout

On August 15th, 1971, the world changed—quietly, almost silently. There were no riots in the street, no cities burning, no stock market crash. Just a calm, calculated announcement from President Richard Nixon that the U.S. would temporarily suspend the convertibility of the dollar into gold.

Temporarily. That word would go on to stretch into decades.

What happened that day wasn’t just a policy shift. It was the end of an era—the moment money stopped being real.

For centuries, money was anchored to something tangible. Whether it was gold coins in your hand or paper notes backed by gold in a vault, there was always a thread connecting money to reality. That thread was cut in 1971, and with it, the financial world became unmoored.

From that moment on, the U.S. dollar and every currency tied to it became just that—paper. Paper backed not by gold, but by promises. By trust. And as history teaches us, trust in governments and central banks is fragile at best.

Why did Nixon do it? Because the U.S. had overextended. It was printing money like mad to fund wars, entitlements, and expansionist policies, and countries started asking for their gold in return. The U.S. didn’t have enough to give. So instead of admitting failure, it slammed the door shut.

It was a rug pull on a global scale.

Since that day, the purchasing power of the dollar has plummeted. The cost of living has skyrocketed. Wages flatlined while productivity soared. Housing, education, healthcare—all became unaffordable not because of natural market forces, but because the money used to pay for them was bleeding value year after year.

The world we live in today—the financial anxiety, the ever-increasing debt, the hollowing out of the middle class—it all traces back to the moment we abandoned sound money.

Enter Bitcoin.

Bitcoin isn’t just a new form of money. It’s a rejection of the fiat lie. It’s a return to something solid, something scarce, something unmanipulable. With a fixed supply of 21 million and a transparent, decentralized ledger, Bitcoin doesn’t ask for trust. It doesn’t care about political promises or backroom deals. It just is.

Where fiat inflates, Bitcoin deflates. Where fiat deceives, Bitcoin reveals. Where fiat decays, Bitcoin endures.

1971 was the year they broke the money. Bitcoin is how we fix it.

Tick tock, next block.

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