They Control Everything: The Hidden Masters of Money and War w/ Simon Dixon

    Nov 5, 2025

    22823 symboles

    14 min de lecture

    SUMMARY

    Simon Dixon, Bitcoin pioneer and author, joins Robert Breedlove on the What is Money? podcast to dissect the "Proof of Weapons Network"—corporate and banking forces manipulating global debt, wars, and politics—while positioning Bitcoin as a decentralizing counterforce amid a shift to multipolar world order.

    STATEMENTS

    • The global financial system operates as a debt-based Ponzi scheme where new money creation requires perpetual debt accumulation to sustain itself.
    • Central banks enable governments to fund wars by printing fiat currency, turning money into a weapon that perpetuates conflict and resource extraction.
    • Post-1971, removing gold convertibility privatized dollar creation, ushering in an era dominated by banks that leverage debt for control.
    • The Federal Reserve's shareholders are private banks, allowing them to create dollars through loans while profiting from interest that doesn't exist in the system.
    • Fiat currency inherently leads to communism as wealth concentrates among elites, widening inequality and sparking civil unrest.
    • The "Proof of Weapons Network" encompasses weaponized media, banking, surveillance, and currency to maintain corporate dominance over governments.
    • Historical gold movements closely mirror geopolitical power shifts, with whoever controls gold dictating global rules.
    • Wall Street funded both sides of major conflicts, including Nazi Germany, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the industrial base in America.
    • The Bank for International Settlements facilitated Nazi gold transfers during World War II, centralizing reserves in Fort Knox without audits.
    • BlackRock and similar asset managers control voting rights in thousands of companies, effectively governing through board seats and AI tools like Aladdin.
    • Democracy is an illusion designed to distract from corporate control, where politicians serve lobbyists rather than voters.
    • Operation Chokepoint 2.0 was a coordinated effort by regulators and banks to centralize Bitcoin holdings via ETFs and corporate treasuries.
    • Centralization in Bitcoin via ETFs and loans against holdings risks rehypothecation and loss of sovereignty to the financial elite.
    • The multipolar world, driven by BRICS and China, challenges Western hegemony by enabling trade without dollar dependence.
    • China's Belt and Road Initiative offers non-predatory investments to the Global South, contrasting IMF debt traps.
    • Wars in the Middle East serve to level infrastructure for profitable reconstruction contracts awarded to Western corporations.
    • Africa's potential sovereignty arises from partnering with BRICS for resource utilization rather than Western exploitation.
    • Economic theories like Keynesianism justify government debt for stimulus, but ignore the Ponzi nature requiring endless expansion.
    • Free market capitalism requires hard money and ethics, which fiat systems abandoned, leading to ruthless financialization.
    • The CIA and deep state operate for corporate interests, funding militias and trafficking to sustain slush funds via the Vatican Bank.
    • Bitcoin enables peaceful resistance by allowing self-custody, node operation, and outperforming fiat-based assets.
    • Spiritual warfare underlies monetary systems, where usury and debt push societies toward moral decay and conflict.
    • Tolerating crimes against humanity, like in Gaza, invites similar technologies and unrest back to the West.
    • Multipolarity reduces global war risks by making direct conflicts unprofitable compared to negotiated resource deals.
    • AI and surveillance technologies beta-tested in conflict zones are now deployed domestically for control.
    • The West's K-shaped economy polarizes society, with elites borrowing at zero percent while others face inflation.
    • Sovereign wealth funds in GCC countries are buying out US military bases for regional autonomy.
    • Bitcoin's fixed supply allows individuals to build personal sovereignty outside the collapsing fiat system.
    • Historical education brainwashes narratives of Western benevolence, ignoring centuries of brutal imperialism.
    • Central banks worldwide are shareholders in the Bank for International Settlements, enforcing dollar hegemony.
    • The European Union was created to centralize currencies under unelected bodies subservient to global finance.

    IDEAS

    • Fiat money's structure ensures perpetual warfare as debt requires resource conquest to roll over endlessly.
    • Gold's physical custody has historically determined war outcomes by enabling or denying economic leverage.
    • Asset managers like BlackRock act as modern East India Companies, colonizing economies through share ownership.
    • Operation Chokepoint 2.0 deliberately crashed crypto exchanges to funnel Bitcoin into regulated, centralized vehicles.
    • Multipolar blocks like BRICS allow nations to trade in local currencies, eroding dollar supremacy without violence.
    • China's normalization of Iran-Saudi relations via diplomacy outmaneuvers US proxy wars for regional peace.
    • Africa's thousand-year resource curse could end through Belt and Road manufacturing partnerships, bypassing IMF loans.
    • Bitcoin treasury companies risk becoming mafia-tied, compromising decentralization for Wall Street integration.
    • Spiritual texts across religions condemn usury as a path to societal darkness, echoed in modern debt slavery.
    • Surveillance tech from Gaza and Ukraine is repurposed for Western border control, turning beta tests into domestic tools.
    • Economic curricula at universities serve corporate agendas, training compliant bankers over ethical thinkers.
    • Nazis integrated into the CIA via Operation Paperclip formed a covert network funded by trafficking empires.
    • Democracy's vote illusion masks lobbyist control, where wealth buys policy and assassinations enforce compliance.
    • AI like BlackRock's Aladdin decides bailouts, centralizing power in unelected algorithms over human governance.
    • Rebuilding war-torn areas via tokenization profits tech giants more than destruction, incentivizing controlled chaos.
    • Keynesian economics forked from ethical hard-money models, prioritizing debt over societal well-being.
    • Western militias like ISIS are intelligence-funded to topple resource-rich nations for corporate extraction.
    • Bitcoin's proof-of-work peacefully "weapons" against fiat by enabling untouchable personal sovereignty.
    • Multipolar competition might yield a fairer world, as China's non-colonial model contrasts imperial brutality.
    • Core developers' ties to treasury pushes signal potential centralization threats, necessitating alternative implementations.
    • Tolerating distant genocides boomerangs as advanced control tech returns home via open borders engineered chaos.
    • Fiat politics entertains with left-right divides while military-industrial complexes pull strings.
    • Sovereign nations like Russia nationalize resources to resist privatization, earning Western demonization.
    • Bitcoin nodes and self-custody create digital islands immune to systemic implosion.
    • History's cartoonish Western heroism ignores opium wars and gold heists that built empires.

    INSIGHTS

    • Debt-based money inherently breeds inequality and conflict, as interest payments demand endless expansion absent in the system.
    • Corporate asset managers eclipse governments, wielding true power through shares, AI, and lobbies rather than elections.
    • Multipolarity fosters peace by economic competition, forcing negotiated decolonization over endless proxy wars.
    • Bitcoin decentralizes sovereignty, allowing individuals to exit fiat traps and resist centralized surveillance.
    • Historical usury prohibitions reveal debt's moral peril, driving societies from ethics to ruthless exploitation.
    • Beta-testing atrocities abroad accelerates domestic technocracy, linking global wars to local control.
    • Economic theories stripped ethics and hard money, enabling financialization that concentrates wealth in few hands.
    • Spiritual tests arise in tolerating injustice; truth demands action against divisive narratives profiting elites.
    • Gold's role persists in geopolitics, but Bitcoin solves custody and transfer issues for modern sovereignty.
    • Western imperialism's brutality, masked as benevolence, now faces backlash in a resource-empowered Global South.
    • Centralization battles in Bitcoin mirror global power shifts, requiring hedges like alternative node software.
    • Fiat's Ponzi endgame is self-cannibalization, polarizing societies until multipolar alternatives emerge.
    • Rebuilding profits exceed war gains, incentivizing destruction as setup for tokenized reconstruction.
    • Education and media manufacture consent for crimes, unlearning which reveals the puppet masters.
    • Sovereign wealth enables regional autonomy, buying freedom from dollar hegemony through asset swaps.

    QUOTES

    • "The world has this facade of thinking that they live in democracies when democracy is an absolute optical illusion to distract people into thinking my vote matters when it doesn't matter."
    • "I call it the proof of weapons network... everything is weaponized. Even civil unrest is weaponized."
    • "The end result of fiat currency is communism... the future of the west is as a technocracy."
    • "Wall Street essentially created and funded fascism, communism, and fake capitalism."
    • "BlackRock today is essentially the British East India Company of the British Empire."
    • "The only vote that matters is your money. And you have to have money that beats the system. And Bitcoin is that money."
    • "America's not capitalism. China's not communism. That's the first thing to figure out."
    • "Between the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve, I would put an estimate that 200 million deaths have occurred in order to extract resources through wars."
    • "What we allow and tolerate is coming home."
    • "Absolute power corrupts absolutely... the real battle of the future is centralization versus decentralization."
    • "Life is a test for how you react under challenge. Do you go down an evil path? Do you go down a good path?"
    • "We've been in a continual state of war ever since... none of it was necessary, but it's because of this proof of weapons network."
    • "The proof of weapons network... controls all the governments, they control the politicians... if they want to assassinate someone... they have the ability to do that."
    • "Bitcoin was a blessing for me... it gave me financial independence I never imagined was possible."
    • "The positivity is that the world's going to be a bit fairer... under multipolarity because I believe in competition."
    • "Everybody needs more Bitcoin this month than the previous month and you're running out of months to do it."

    HABITS

    • Track global gold movements to understand shifting power dynamics and geopolitical influences.
    • Attempt to build alternative financial systems, like community banks, to learn fiat limitations firsthand.
    • Study monetary history from 1694 onward to grasp debt-based schemes' origins and impacts.
    • Invest in self-custody Bitcoin storage, running personal nodes for sovereignty.
    • Dedicate weekly time to analyzing Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and geopolitics interconnections.
    • Boycott fiat borrowing by prioritizing debt repayment over new loans when possible.
    • Engage in anti-war activism to resist militarized finance personally.
    • Unlearn biased Western education by cross-referencing ancient scriptures and global histories.
    • Accumulate Bitcoin monthly, stacking more than the previous period regardless of market conditions.
    • Foster local spending and decentralized infrastructure investments for community resilience.
    • Question personal tolerance for distant injustices to build ethical awareness.
    • Deinvest from centralized crypto firms aligning with Wall Street interests.
    • Plan retreats or islands for physical sanctuary amid global volatility.
    • Read non-fiction on economics, power, and spirituality to shift thinking paradigms.
    • Meditate on spiritual tests in daily challenges to guide moral decisions.

    FACTS

    • The Bank of England initiated fractional reserve banking in 1694, creating a debt-based system requiring perpetual expansion.
    • Post-1913 Federal Reserve creation, the US income tax enabled unlimited dollar printing without tariff reliance.
    • Nazi gold from invaded countries was transferred via the Bank for International Settlements to Fort Knox by war's end.
    • BlackRock's Aladdin AI was used by the Federal Reserve to allocate pandemic bailouts.
    • 17% of Bitcoin supply is now held in ETFs, corporate treasuries, and lost coins like Satoshi's.
    • Saudi Arabia reduced petrodollar transactions from 100% to 70% dollars amid multipolar shifts.
    • China holds an estimated 22,000 tons of gold and $3 trillion in reserves, dumping US treasuries.
    • The IMF and World Bank have indebted over 150 countries since Bretton Woods, installing central banks.
    • Operation Paperclip integrated Nazis into the CIA, forming covert networks funded by trafficking.
    • Africa supplies most rare earth minerals for Western tech, often via Western-funded militias.
    • BRICS nations trade in local currencies, bypassing dollars for 20% of global transactions.
    • The European Union centralized currencies under unelected bodies from Bank for International Settlements origins.
    • US debt stands at $37 trillion, with $7 trillion rollover needed annually.
    • 75% of world's gold ended up in US custody post-WWII through ledger manipulations.
    • Palantir and similar firms profit from surveillance beta-tested in Gaza and Ukraine.
    • Wikileaks survived bank blockades only due to Bitcoin donations during funding crises.
    • Keynsian economics mandates 2% inflation targets, sustaining fiat expansion.
    • GCC sovereign wealth funds are purchasing US military base exits for regional control.
    • 200 million deaths estimated from Bank of England-Fed backed wars since 1694.
    • Bitcoin mining has outperformed dollar-cost averaging for accumulation over 2-4 years.

    REFERENCES

    • Bank to the Future (Simon's book on money, war, and Bitcoin).
    • Proof of Weapons Network (Simon's conceptualized framework for corporate control).
    • Bitcoin white paper (Satoshi's original, mentioning cipher punks and resistance).
    • Operation Gladio by Paul Williams (book on strategy of tension in Europe and Middle East).
    • Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (forked economics without ethics or hard money).
    • Islamic economics texts (hard money, ethics, free trade models).
    • Jewish scriptures (prohibitions on intra-group usury).
    • Bitcoin Not Bombs (early podcast linking Bitcoin to anti-war activism).
    • Aladdin (BlackRock's AI for financial decisions and bailouts).
    • Operation Chokepoint 2.0 (regulatory action against crypto).
    • Belt and Road Initiative (China's global investment program).
    • Abraham Accords (US-brokered but China-influenced Middle East normalizations).
    • Wikileaks (platform revealing war crimes, funded by Bitcoin).
    • Shanghai Cooperation Organization (multipolar alliance display of AI and military).
    • Bitcoin Hard Talk (Simon's weekly YouTube podcast on Bitcoin, macro, geopolitics).
    • Course.breedlove.io (Robert's distilled non-fiction book courses).
    • Heart and Soil Supplements (organ meat capsules for nutrient density).
    • Blockware Solutions (Bitcoin mining as a service platform).
    • Onramp Bitcoin (multi-institution custody service).
    • Mind Lab Pro (nootropic for brain enhancement).
    • Coinbits (Bitcoin exchange with roundups).
    • The Farm at Okefenokee (regenerative off-grid community).
    • Orange Pill App (network for Bitcoiners and merchants).
    • Efani (SIM swap protection service).
    • Lineage Provisions (health supplements).
    • Colorado Craft Beef (regenerative meat source).
    • Salt of the Earth Electrolytes (hydration product).
    • Jawzrsize (facial exercise tool).

    HOW TO APPLY

    • Recognize fiat's Ponzi nature by tracking personal debt versus income to visualize systemic traps.
    • Audit gold's role in history by mapping movements during wars to predict current power shifts.
    • Build self-custody Bitcoin habits starting with hardware wallets and node setup for sovereignty.
    • Analyze corporate ownership using tools like Aladdin replicas to expose BlackRock's board influences.
    • Boycott ETFs by directly purchasing and holding Bitcoin to avoid centralized leverage risks.
    • Study multipolar alliances like BRICS to diversify trade and investment away from dollars.
    • Engage in local economies by spending Bitcoin at merchants via apps like Orange Pill.
    • Unlearn biases through cross-reading global histories, focusing on imperial atrocities.
    • Plan physical retreats by scouting islands or farms for volatility-proof living.
    • Run alternative Bitcoin nodes like knots to hedge against core developer centralization.
    • Question narratives by verifying claims against scriptures and ethics texts on usury.
    • Deinvest from Wall Street-tied crypto firms, reallocating to decentralized projects.
    • Accumulate Bitcoin monthly by prioritizing it over fiat debt payments strategically.
    • Foster community resistance through anti-war activism groups using Bitcoin funding.
    • Monitor surveillance tech deployments from conflict zones to prepare personal privacy measures.
    • Negotiate personal sovereignty by building digital islands with cold storage and backups.

    ONE-SENTENCE TAKEAWAY

    Embrace Bitcoin self-custody to counter the Proof of Weapons Network's fiat-driven control and foster multipolar peace.

    RECOMMENDATIONS

    • Prioritize Bitcoin accumulation in self-custody to outperform fiat inflation and gain independence.
    • Diversify into gold for geopolitical hedging, tracking central bank purchases closely.
    • Run personal Bitcoin nodes to contribute to network decentralization against core risks.
    • Boycott corporate treasuries and ETFs holding Bitcoin to prevent leverage exploitation.
    • Study historical gold flows to anticipate power realignments in multipolar negotiations.
    • Invest in Belt and Road-like local projects for community resilience over IMF dependencies.
    • Unlearn Western curricula by exploring ethical economics from ancient texts.
    • Build physical sanctuaries like off-grid farms to navigate volatility.
    • Deinvest from centralized crypto platforms aligning with Wall Street.
    • Question tolerance for global injustices, linking them to domestic surveillance threats.
    • Accumulate sovereign wealth personally, avoiding fiat borrowing traps.
    • Engage in weekly macro-geopolitics analysis to connect Bitcoin's role.
    • Support anti-war initiatives with Bitcoin donations for funding resistance.
    • Hedge Bitcoin implementations with alternatives like knots for protectionism.
    • Foster multipolar awareness by trading in non-dollar assets where possible.
    • Prepare for AI centralization by advocating decentralized identity solutions.
    • Treat life challenges as spiritual tests, choosing good over divisive paths.
    • Prioritize ethical hard-money models in personal finance decisions.

    MEMO

    In a riveting episode of the What is Money? podcast, Bitcoin pioneer Simon Dixon unveils the "Proof of Weapons Network," a shadowy alliance of banks, asset managers, and corporations that manipulates global affairs through debt-fueled wars and illusory democracies. Drawing from his journey as a monetary reformer who once attempted to launch a bank outside the fiat system, Dixon traces this network's roots to the 1694 founding of the Bank of England, where fractional reserve lending birthed a Ponzi scheme demanding endless debt for money creation. He argues that post-1971 gold standard abandonment privatized dollar issuance, empowering banks to weaponize currency, media, and surveillance while fueling conflicts from World War I to today's Middle East tensions.

    Dixon likens BlackRock to a modern East India Company, controlling voting rights in 20,000 firms via AI like Aladdin, which even guided Federal Reserve bailouts. This financial oligarchy, he contends, subordinates governments—evident in un-audited Fort Knox gold amassed through World War II ledger tricks at the Bank for International Settlements. Politicians, mere puppets for lobbyists, perpetuate a K-shaped economy where elites borrow at zero percent, widening inequality until civil unrest provides pretext for more control. Fiat's endpoint, Dixon warns, is technocratic communism, with operations like Chokepoint 2.0 designed to corral Bitcoin into ETFs for rehypothecation.

    Yet amid Western decline, Dixon sees hope in multipolarity. China's Belt and Road Initiative contrasts IMF debt traps by investing in Global South manufacturing, enabling Africa to harness resources after a millennium of exploitation. In the Middle East, Beijing's diplomacy normalized Saudi-Iran ties, paving decolonization as GCC wealth funds buy out U.S. bases. Wars now serve reconstruction profits—tokenizing Gaza rubble for Palantir surveillance—making direct global conflict unprofitable. Dixon predicts peace here, with Israel transitioning from destabilizer to GCC-managed state, while Africa rises through BRICS partnerships free from neoliberal dictates.

    Bitcoin emerges as the peaceful counterforce, its proof-of-work enabling self-custody "digital islands" that outperform fiat. Dixon urges monthly stacking in cold storage, running nodes, and avoiding loans against holdings to evade mafia-like Wall Street integration. He cautions against core developers' treasury pushes, advocating hedges like alternative implementations to safeguard decentralization. As AI disrupts jobs and states, Bitcoin's fixed supply offers sovereignty, but only if held outside centralized vehicles.

    Underlying this, Dixon invokes spiritual warfare: usury's ancient condemnations reveal debt's moral corrosion, testing humanity's tolerance for distant genocides that boomerang as domestic tech. Unlearning brainwashed histories exposes imperial brutalities—200 million deaths for resource grabs—urging resistance against divisive narratives profiting the network. In a world of engineered divides, he recommends ethical hard-money revival, local spending, and questioning whose agenda hatred serves.

    Multipolar competition, Dixon believes, yields fairness; China's non-colonial model, born from opium wars' humiliation, avoids Western covert ops. Though authoritarian at home, it competes without hegemony, potentially curbing endless wars. Bitcoiners must navigate this toward stateless technocracy, owning assets in self-custody while preparing for AI battles with decentralized identities.

    Dixon's message is urgent: accumulate Bitcoin relentlessly, as months dwindle before fiat implodes. Yet optimism prevails—humanity's trajectory bends toward progress despite chaos, with multipolarity averting World War III through profitable peace deals. By boycotting the network, individuals reclaim votes via money, building a fairer global order.