Introduction
In 2020, the world was hit by what was described as a global pandemic. But behind the headlines, lockdowns, and panic, something far more consequential was unfolding—an engineered crisis that served as cover for a massive power shift in global finance. At the center of that shift was President Donald J. Trump, who used the chaos not just to respond to COVID-19, but to cripple the true seat of economic control in America: the Federal Reserve.
The Perfect Cover: A Manufactured Crisis
COVID-19 created the perfect storm. Fear paralyzed the public. Governments worldwide enacted sweeping emergency powers. Big Pharma cashed in with rushed vaccines. Meanwhile, trillions of dollars were created out of thin air. The average citizen saw stimulus checks and mandates. But few noticed the deeper move: the merging of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury under Trump’s watch.
The Setup: CARES Act and Treasury-Fed Fusion
Under the CARES Act, the Treasury handed over $454 billion to the Fed to support emergency lending. The Fed, in turn, leveraged this to backstop trillions in loans to corporations, states, and banks. On paper, this was economic stimulus. In reality, it marked the beginning of the Fed losing its independence. For the first time, monetary policy and fiscal policy were effectively merged—with the Treasury calling the shots.
The Kill Shot: Trump’s Quiet Coup
While the media focused on daily case counts and vaccine rollouts, Trump orchestrated a deeper war—one against the private central banking system itself. By tying the Fed's emergency powers to Treasury capital, Trump put the Fed in a chokehold. They could create money, but only with Treasury approval. That flipped over a century of monetary control.
And while many blamed Trump for his vaccine support, it’s possible he allowed Operation Warp Speed to go forward not to help Big Pharma, but to keep the public distracted while he executed the financial reset.
Aftermath: A Hollowed-Out Fed
Fast forward to 2025, and the Fed still exists—but it's a shadow of its former self. Its credibility is damaged, its independence compromised, and its tools less effective. Meanwhile, populist movements, state-level resistance to the IRS, and discussions of eliminating federal income taxes are gaining traction.
Conclusion
COVID-19 was never just a health crisis. It was a battlefield. And while many players made power grabs for control, Trump may have been the only one who used the chaos to dismantle the real engine of global control: the Federal Reserve. He didn’t just survive the deep state attack—he flipped the board.
I'm not that old, lol, but I guess in bitcoin years I am. I was getting into bitcoin around that time period where the block size war was at its peak so I got to experience it first hand. I was always firmly in the "big blocker" camp because that was just how most normal people understood the road map.
The psyop was convincing people that it was dangerous to increase the limit beyond 1MB because, the argument goes, if blocks were too big then the chain would grow too fast and storage would become a hurdle for independent node operators who wouldn't be able to afford to buy bigger and bigger hard drives. While it's true that we don't want 1TB blocks tomorrow, so there should be a limit, the "small blockers" took it a step further and insisted that it could never be increased beyond the initial limit set by Satoshi, so now we are stuck with blocks that have the capacity of a 3.5" floppy disk and that is effectively set in stone. Unless they can somehow flip and convince everyone that suddenly hard forks are a good thing.
So the result of the block size war was the hard fork that made Bitcoin Cash. It shares all the major parameters of BTC such as the hard 21 million supply cap, 10 minute blocks, and shares the same history with BTC up until August 1, 2017. Those alternative node implementations that couldn't get off the ground with BTC now operate on the BCH network. So if you want to run a BCH node, there are about 5-6 independent dev teams with various approaches and specializations. BCH has a soft block size limit of 32MB and can increase automatically according to network demand, with no upper limit.
Another one is Monero, which uses RandomX instead of SHA256 for mining. RandomX is optimized for consumer grade hardware and ASIC-resistant which means anyone can mine it without having to invest a fortune on specialized hardware.
Both Bitcoin Cash and Monero have no corporation or foundation behind them, but a pretty wide and diverse ecosystem of independent developers and entrepreneurs. There are others but those are the main ones.
Thanks. I'm familiar with the Block Size War, but only through what I've read. Arguments to be had on both sides. Thought BCH was extinct, will take a look at it and Monero.