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SUCCESSFUL CONTACT MADE! MEPA IS REAL! AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDED. ABRIDGED TRANSCRIPT BELOW.
"...most people found the change traumatic, the millennials fared best as they had little to begin with and adapted best to the new system. Older people with pensions and people who had become dependent on the state fared the worse, but generally except for the few who had made preparations life became much harder.
The collapse began in early September 2018. Deutchbank was the first to go, after the ECB refused to guarantee its obligations to other banks, shortly after Barclays, HSBC and Santander. The contagion spread and eventually all banks, even Goldman Sachs collapsed too. The IMF and World Bank were overwhelmed, nothing could be done. Afterwards the true extent of their criminality became apparent. Many of the assets they said they had did not exist or been stolen and what assets they did have were now worthless as the buyers (other banks) had all gone bankrupt too. Many bankers disappeared, lots were arrested and quite a few killed themselves.
Throughout the world governments had guaranteed most peoples savings, it very quickly became apparent that due to the size of the collapse this would not be possible. Instead the government issued savers with 'peoples saver bonds' which were to be held for 5 years and paid 8% interest. Initially these bonds traded at a premium due to the -2.5% interest rate set by the Bank Of England. However since the collapse most businesses had closed and the economy was entirely government driven. Huge sums of money were created with the aim of kick starting the economy back to life. Inflation began to creep in, 10% then 20%, the peoples saver bonds began to trade at a discount 99p to the pound, 95p to the pound. Eventually as inflation hit 500% they were worthless. The government tried to stop inflation by reducing the supply of physical cash, first £50 note were no longer legal tender, then new £10 and £20 notes where issued with the old ones no longer to be used. This had the opposite effect, people no longer trusted that their cash had value so spent it as quick as possible driving up prices even more. Inflation peaked at 630% but by then the damage had been done. Throughout the world all government issued fiat was no longer trusted or accepted.
As the old currencies died so did the power once held by the governments that issued them, the USA fared the worse, no longer able to afford its armies it became a irrelevance. All countries suffered however those with natural resources, gold or crypto-reserves fared the best.
In September as the collapse was underway attention turned to Bitcoin, they idea of being able to transfer value from A to B without the need for trusting a 3rd party i.e. a bank brought in many large businesses. Also a growing number of people whilst wary and skeptical of using bitcoin thought that their money would be safer in bitcoin than in a bank or held in cash. As the price of bitcoin became more and more expensive the trust in cash diminished. By December bitcoin was now over £1M, it could have been £10M or £100M, even £1B it was irrelevant now. As people frantically converted their life savings from pounds to Bitcoin, receiving a few thousand Satoshi's, the old system was now all but dead.
In a last ditch attempt to keep hold of some kind of power governments began to mine Bitcoin. For many people reality hit home to how severe the situation had become when during the winter of 2018 the country had rolling blackouts as power was diverted to mining operations. Many people died during a particularly harsh cold snap around Christmas. Whilst the government did mange to mine some bitcoin it was too little too late. As the government collapsed, in the chaos the bitcoins mined appear to have been stolen..."
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Post 2
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GREAT WORK NUMBER 25! I NEVER DOUBTED THAT MEPA WOULD BE A SUCCESS. WOULD LIKE TO ESCALATE MEPA BEYOND NUMBER 15 TO JADE TURTLE. PLEASE AQUIRE PROOF MEPA IS REAL, NORMAL PROTOCOLS SHALL APPLY (LEVEL 3B).
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