Fix the Money, Fix the Culture.

Brought to you by: Şelale Malkoçoğlu | Author: Sinan | Date: 4/30/2025

The following content was written by Sinan, founder of "How Bitcoin Upgrades Mankind", on behalf of Bitcoin FilmFest .

Our world feels broken. Cultures are divided. People are angry, disconnected, and lost. But few realize that many of our deepest problems — war, jealousy, hopelessness, depression and economic hardship — all trace back to a single, invisible source: our broken money.

This article isn’t just about Bitcoin. It’s about the very fabric of human connection. It’s about how fixing the root of our economic system transforms not only how we trade, but how we live, how we feel, and how we treat each other.

Fixing the money is not just an economic shift — it’s a cultural rebirth.

In the current fiat system, money loses value over time. Inflation is not only a bug, but it became an inevitable feature. Debt-based economies require constant expansion to avoid collapse, and the most common way to sustain this is by continuously printing money. As new money is created, the value of our savings shrinks. What you earn today cannot buy tomorrow what it buys today.

Imagine you’ve been saving for ten years to buy a small house for your family. You skip vacations. You work late. You cut every corner to save. But when the day finally comes, the house is twice the price. Your money didn’t grow. It rotted. All those years of sacrifice… and still, you’re priced out.

That’s inflation.

The slow theft of your future.

It punishes those who plan. It rewards those who borrow and print.

Happening everywhere — quietly, constantly, mercilessly...

This system breeds frustration, grief, jealousy and resentment. A young person in a country suffering 70% inflation watches the dream of owning a home disappear before their eyes. Even in more "developed" nations with "only" 2-7% inflation, people work hard for years, only to find the prices have risen too far ahead to catch up. When you cannot secure a future no matter how hard you try, your hope begins to die. And it gets worse at the level of human connection. When someone in one country can build wealth with the same effort that barely allows someone else to survive in another, then this imbalance even leads to separation and instead of blaming the system we start blaming each other. People feel divided by invisible walls of opportunity. Jealousy arises, fuelled by the injustice of a system where opportunity is dictated by geography and inflation rates. Trust dissolves, hope dies out, resentment and frustration take their place. A person from a high-inflation economy might envy one from a low-inflation country. Yet both are trapped in a system that steals from everyone, just in different degrees.

Bitcoin breaks this entire paradigm.

It has a fixed supply — 21 million coins, ever.

No central authority can inflate it.

No political decision can degrade its value.

It is money that respects your time, your efforts, your future life. When money is absolute scarce and there is no inflation, prices tend to fall over time. Not because value disappears, but because technology makes goods cheaper to produce. Think about phones, computers, or solar panels — they get better and more affordable as innovation grows. In a healthy economy, productivity pushes prices down. It rewards society with shared abundance. But inflation works against that force. It steals what innovation gives, keeping you running in place. One builds, the other erodes. In a sound-money system, inflation is removed and only progress remains. The gains stay in your pocket. Your money doesn’t lose value. It gains power.

You don’t need to run faster, because the system cannot steal from you. This means that saving, something impossible under inflation, becomes meaningful again. A worker in Africa, a coder in Germany, a farmer in Peru — they all finally operate under the same financial reality. No inflation. No devaluation. Just a common ground where value is earned, held, and respected.

When people can save, they can plan. When they can plan, they can envision a better future. This ignites hope. When they can hope, they build, they collaborate and they connect. And when everyone has that same chance, culture heals.

Our current system doesn't just distort prices, it also distorts power. Governments fund war not by asking the people for permission or taxes, but by just printing new money. When money can be created from nothing, conflicts become easy to sustain. Endless wars rage on. Not because the people want them, but because the system makes them effortless to finance.

This creates deep trauma. War doesn’t just destroy buildings, it scars the human heart. It separates families. It divides cultures for generations. If you’ve watched your home bombed, your family taken, your life shattered, the hatred left behind becomes part of our culture, deeply ingrained within our hearts. Passed down like a curse. It turns neighbour against neighbour, brother against brother. When a foreign army invades your land, it becomes nearly impossible not to associate their flag, their language, or even their people with pain. Hatred becomes easy. Fear becomes natural.

Cultures begin to define themselves not by who they are, but by who they are against. War fractures humanity. Not just at the border, but in our hearts and our minds.

Again, it all traces back to the ability to finance war without cost.
Bitcoin changes this.

It cannot be printed. It cannot be created at whim. It must be earned, through energy and effort. This simple fact changes everything. War, under a Bitcoin standard, becomes incredibly hard to sustain. Suddenly, leaders must make difficult choices. Suddenly, the cost is real. And when their own reserves run dry, they cannot quietly reach for more, they must turn to the people.

On a Bitcoin standard, the people hold the money. The worker. The mother. The builder. The coder. Every human who exchanged value for Bitcoin must be asked. No longer can wars be launched in silence. The power to say yes or no, the power to give or deny permission, shifts back into the hands of the many. War becomes a societal decision, not the privilege of a powerful few.

When money is scarce, peace becomes valuable again. When money can’t be printed at will, human life is treasured. When war is no longer easy to finance, cultural division loses its fuel.

When we fix the money, we take away the engine behind mass conflict.

We create a world where cultures are no longer enemies on a chessboard, but people again — human, emotional, connected.

To build this new culture, we need something even deeper in the first place, because nobody can fix a broken paradigm from within.

You can’t patch a system that needs your wounds to exist. Instead, you must create a new one, from the bottom up. And bottom-up revolutions don’t begin with policy. They begin with ideas — bold ones, honest ones, revolutionary ones. Ideas that shift broken paradigms. And ideas need air. They need space. They need the freedom to be expressed, explored, and shared.

This is where projects like Bitcoin FilmFest becomes essential.
More than a festival, it’s a cultural catalyst.

• As a year-round initiative, it helps independent creators and freedom-oriented individuals. From curating films to podcasts, newsletters, and stories that dare to think beyond the boundaries of the fiat world, it offers not just information—but vision. And vision is what makes change possible.
• As an annual event, it brings people together through emotional, artistic, and intellectual expression. It empowers the visionaries, the builders, and the storytellers. Through art, it shows us that there is another way to live—another system, another paradigm for our beautiful world.

Victor Hugo once said,

No one can stop an idea whose time has come.

Bitcoin is that idea. But it needs a voice.

It needs expression. It needs YOU. The community.

Bitcoin FilmFest exists to make sure that idea is seen, heard, and felt — deeply and emotionally. It channels the power of free expression into a movement that touches culture, heals hearts, and imagines a fairer and more united world. By sharing good content, by offering a stage for ideas, by connecting people. A home for vision, and a spark for cultural rebirth.

Hope to see you in person this year at BFF25 (May 22-25, Warsaw, PL).

Let's make this real: "Fix the money. Fix the culture."