Throughout my life, I’ve lived one sad story after another. I’ve been a victim more times than I can count. I grew up learning how to survive on my own. I watched my family pass away one by one. Every time, there was another legal battle between relatives over how assets would be distributed. By the time I was 9 years old, I wasn’t even allowed to see my cousins at Christmas. A few years later, my parents divorced over debt issues, and I learned a lifelong lesson about mixing money and relationships.

When I was 21, I lost everything left in a fire. It was arson. My mother, my dog, and my home were turned to ashes overnight. I spent years dealing with attorneys, lawsuits, detectives, and insurance policies. It was kind of thing that you’d see on crime shows that you couldn’t imagine happening to you. All it took was one phone call to change my life. I spent the next 12 years living in a nightmare that I couldn’t wake up from.

My story isn’t about the fire. My story is about the day I picked up a torch. 🔥

One Last Dance - I wrote this music in 2014 as a reminded that my story wasn’t over yet. Available for decentralized streaming on Audius. This video was minted on Rarible in 2021.

What if there was a way to distribute assets directly to beneficiaries without the need for attorneys, lawsuits, and fighting with insurance companies to get access to funds that are rightfully yours?

In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published his Bitcoin White Paper with a groundbreaking technology that is going to change the world. Since then, numerous applications have been built around the use of this disruptive technology. The possibilities are truly endless.

In October 2021, I received my license for life insurance and annuities in the state of Florida. I began to do some research on how I could make this system better. When I found the solution, I quit my job again.

The future is not Bitcoin. The future is blockchain.

In 1995, the technology didn’t exist to save my family, but it’s here now. Through advances in smart contracts and artificial intelligence, it is entirely possible to distribute monetary assets, physical assets, such as real estate, and even insurance policies by utilizing a ledger. A person’s last will and trust can be automated to send funds to designated beneficiaries without the need for any third parties.

We are facing so many issues in this world due to corporate greed. We have elected politicians that fill their pockets with bribe money instead of doing what’s best for the people. We’re entering the third year of a pandemic. We had a president who paid less in taxes than someone receiving unemployment in 2020.

We’re facing a climate disaster, and we’re so caught up bickering with each other over vaccines that it seems like we’re going to sit back and watch the world burn.

Mainstream news outlets are telling you that Bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency transactions are harmful for the environment. They aren’t telling you about any applications being developed that solve that problem of energy consumption. They certainly aren’t educating anyone on how to use them because they want to tax every single dollar that you earn.

Decentralized estate planning could very well be the solution to a lot of these problems. Changing the way generational wealth is created is the key to changing the world. It’s up to us to make it happen.

References

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2. Blockchain Technology, Estate Planning and Resting Place Management. Nasdaq. 2018.

3. FINRA Blockchain Report. 2017.

4. Take the Green Blockchain to the Next Level with Cardano. Investor Place. David Moadel. 2021.

5. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Satoshi Nakamoto. 2008.

6. Arson Remains Unsolved After Seven Years. Melissa Sorenson. Ink Free News. 2017.