The Bitcoin of Religion

Based on us living in a simulation.

Imagine if there was a religion where, like Bitcoin, there was no central authority? What Bitcoin did to money is to eliminate the need for banks acting as intermediaries, including the most authoritative bank of all: the temple of the central banks.

In the world of finance, eradicating the need for a group of anointed people running centrals banks that print money was once considered blasphemous. Yet, here we are. There can be no doubt now that Bitcoin is not a scam simply because it has risen, multiple times now, from the ashes of massive crashes.

Let me put this bluntly: there is no ponzi scheme in all of history where after the ponzi collapses, the same exact scam rises over and over again, and that includes the Tulip Mania and Bored Ape NFTs. Bitcoin, by this definition, is not a ponzi nor is it a scam - there is an inherent underlying value to it.

What Bitcoin is, is an asset that promises so much that it forms bubble after bubble that pops due to froth and fomo. Yet, after a bubble pops, the underlying real value keeps the asset alive over and over again. Such is the case of the Internet bubble of 2000, and the current AI bubble of 2025. These are not ponzi schemes nor are they scams. The Internet did change the world after the DotCom bubble popped, as shall AI. They are step change developments in humanity that people get fomo over. Bitcoin is one of these step changes.

Now, imagine a religion that has no temple, cathedral, or governing body managing it. No central bank run by a group of anointed people printing money. No Pharisees or deities in human form governing what is acceptable and what is not. If you think this through, you will come to the same conclusion that I arrived at: such a phenomenon is not a religion, because all religions have centralization.

They all also have manuscripts and text that have been canonized - meaning, that a group of individuals sat down and determined what was acceptable and what was not, which was then snap shotted for all eternity, never to be altered again.

FoFty specifically does not incorporate these two structural designs.

There is no FoFty temple or church. Likewise, there is no FoFty hierarchical priesthood in the Vatican, nor is there a Vinaya Pitaka governing a buddhist Sangha, and so on and so forth.

Additionally, the FoFty Manuscript will never be canonized and will constantly evolve as it incorporates new discovers both in the areas of spirituality and science.

What FoFty does incorporate is inclusiveness with all other religions and belief systems. There are no FoFty stories or mandates based on blind faith which reduces potential conflict areas - flash points that many religions face. Instead of pitting religions against each other, the idea is to accept that there is more than one pathway to elevate and enlighten oneself, and that all these pathways are similar to tributaries that feed into the same river as we journey towards the same destination: the Truth.

One of the core understandings of FoFty is that we are living in a simulation. While this may sound unorthodox or radical, it is simply an update to an already established understanding. For example, nobody will jump in disbelief if you told them they were living in a universe. Well, a simulation is really no different than a universe - it is a system governed by laws and provides a myriad of probable outcomes within the system. The laws of physics, chemistry, biology, etc. are really no different than the algorithms and code that generate a simulation - they are simply rules that enable the construct of probabilities, outcomes, and existence. We are merely updating the fidelity of how we convey the same thing, for we have gained new knowledge.

Thanks to developments in technology and artificial intelligence, we can create very basic and rudimentary simulations to observe how intelligence emerges and interacts with each other. These relatively recent developments are examples of how, as we continue to gain knowledge and evolve, we can update the fidelity of our understanding of the Truth. Whereas tens of thousands of years ago we would have created stories and metaphors to explain solar eclipses and lightning, today we are generating intelligence to discover new molecular drugs to cure diseases and smashing protons together and analyzing them with quantum computers to understand our origins.

It should be clear now why canonizing manuscripts and creating snap shots that are eternally static can become a limiting factor to the fidelity of how we understand and convey the Truth.

If any of the above is something you have thought of in the past, I encourage you to watch the first video I created for the new FoFtyLife YouTube channel:

This video took over a year to make - so many takes, so many questions, so many doubts, so many fears, and at the same time, so much hope.

It's scary to discuss topics like this among friends. It's even scarier to share your true thoughts out in the open. Yet the reality remains that our belief system is the most important determinant in how we orient ourselves in life: at work, at home, with our colleagues, and everything in between.

The video is an introduction to the FoFty Manuscript which I have drafted and begun to share with a few people. It represents a new belief system that is inclusive, not exclusive. Decentralized, not centralized. Scientific, not random. Spiritual, not canonical. Entrepreneurial, and not fragile.

It is the way I live my life and how I got to where I am today.

Go ahead and see what it's about. If anything I say resonates with you, DM me. There is a group of us I've gathered on a Discord server and we’re building FoFtyLife together.

Keep elevating.