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The obvious thing about me is the love of Pizza. Straight from the kitchen, with mild chilli pepper souce, onion and mushroom toppings. Then complemented with a well dressed meaty cheese finish, makes my hunger forces of destruction weak. 

Then comes the traditional white kilombero rice. Cooked on charcoal, paired with a local chicken and green vegetables accompanied by a bowl of well fried tomato sauce, aha! Such is the taste for an African man who has affection for Bitcoin. 

Speaking of Bitcoin, here is how it all began... 

In 2015, on an obscure sunny morning, a friend who i highly regard Kumbukani Kachingwe visited for a chat. As a man born with a silver spoon in his hands, out of the blues asked, " What do you know about invisible governments?" I was honestly taken by surprise. I had no idea, it never occured to think of such. However, the conversation ended me having a summary of "The History of the money changers" a book by Andrew Hitchcock 2006. 

That same day in the afternoon, i began reading the book. The opening introduction and the first ten pages were like a harmer that swag hard against my head. My brain was shattered, the pieces were scattered with no broom to sweep. I was in shock of how it exposed the inner workings of our monetary system and how economists sale us the fake ideology of  " business cycles" as natural phenomenons.  

The books timeline proved how business cycles are not natural cycles. It opened my mind, revealing how these cycles are a carefully engeneered economic craft to steal wealth and time from individuals and the society. Throughout my existance, born in the fractional reserve system,  it  never occured to think there was something wrong with our money. I was never tought, nor occured to question what our money really is, where it came from. 

Deficits, budget management, spending within means was all sugar coating, hiding a rotten cake fed to us from our indroctrinating institutions. From the outside,  it is a system that appears to work, however the cracks and leakeges are visible in our day to day living as it is a constant ryhme to compain of high costs of living. As i kept reading further,  the book unveiled how "money changers" who are now " the modern bankers" of today arose from goldsmiths. It described how these kingpins created and eventually took control of the creation of "currency and control of its supply." How they rolled the economy into easy and tight money. How all this creates artificial  "booms" and "busts" cycles.

The book really became my daily companion. The more i read, the more it unveiled timelines, gradual transitions and those who actually fought the battles against the money changers over the control of the money supply. I gradually developed a deeper understanding of what the entire system is and how sound money was reinvented to a currency bondage unit, an (IOU)  which became a key instruments to trigger debt for profit for the banks.  

Then in 2017, i heard of Bitcoin for the first time. The breaking news was Bitcoin's price on the British Broadcasting Cooperation televesion. At this time, Bitcoins price was on massive rally, speeding to a thousand dollars. Interestingly, the headlines came as a siren warning, especially to investors on the stock market. The emphasis was to view Bitcoin as a speculative bubble, nerd money, ready to pop  and burst just like all ponzi schemes. 

Thinking of how speculative products, tech and trendy speculative assets hype on the free market, all signs with Bitcoins behaviour were as common. The chart numbers and comparisons drew Bitcoins scenario similar to the dot com bubble. Some financial analysts compared Bitcoin to gold post 1971.  The aftermath of the Bretton woods system, shook the world, ending commodity sound money to an infinite floating exchanges. This was the time most speculated that gold will fail as an independent commodity. However, in a twist of the tale, gold did the contrary, going even higher in value to over $700 per ounce. Gold accounted for the expanding currency supply commanding its purchasing power duty.

After the wanton noise, i eventually realized Bitcoin was something different. The negative press started to lay a strong foundation of curiousity " Like a splinter in the mind, driving me mad."  This was the time i had to make the shift from Andrew Hitchcock to the internet. Without wasting much time, i unplugged my old scratched HP Probook 4540, packed it in a worn out laptop bag i had no shame with and took off to one of my favourite places.

The college library was not very far from home.  There was free wifi and the journey when i typed "Bitcoin" in the search bar on YouTube. The first result was a presentation done by Andreas Antonopoulos. It was done in Malaysia where he presented his book "Mastering Bitcoin" and "The internet of money." This twenty six minute presentation featured the basics of why Bitcoin. As i watched, Andreas explained how Bitcoin is one of the most fascinating transition of money, evolving from physical commodities to an abstract form of money. The highlights where its decentralized infrastrure, immutable, boardless, censorship resistant from centralization. It was for the first time i learned, i can be my own bank without any middle man. 

The orange pilling began right way. Having learned the basic of Bitcoin, I felt brain procedure had been done, re-assembling the scattered pieces. The presentation was a mental prescription, a solution i longed to find. 

The mind went wild, i opened my mind to an array of history and what stood solid was coming across the legendary "Bill Still". A journalist, a historian and an economist who documented the " The history of the money changers." Then came Mike Miloney, the gold buck, home of the karats, author of  Gold and silver, an incredible historian and an economist. He also documentanted, "the hidden secrets of money" series where he dedicated his life in teaching about monetory history. His known for his great book "A guide to investing in Gold and Silver." 

This was the journey that inspired me to create " Malawi Bitcoin Bench blog".   

Malawi Bitcoin Bench is the garden of oranges and Bitcoin. Rather announcing the price of Bitcoin in "Joachim Thallas." This blog page documents the Bitcoin orange pill journey in Malawi from education initiatives to real stories of use cases of Bitcoin and how transforms ones understanding of money. 

The blog features articles which contain real time seminar interactions, shared opinions and the use case of Bitcoin in Malawi. 

The blog promotes Bitcoin and instils readers to the philosophy of Bitcoin and why Malawi must consider Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the internet of money that anyone can use regardless of circumstance of birth, region, race, political, religious affliations. Bitcoin is for the unbanked, those that feel the pintch of inflation, want to save, make crossboarder payments without restrictions. 

It is my dream that a Malawian can store, send, receive HODL value in Bitcon. Through this blog, ill also share my personal intuition, engaging with humor and employing best analogies and orange pills as far as Bitcoin is concerned. It is my wish for everyone to grasp slightest gist of Bitcoin knowledge and use it practically in everyday transactions. 

I always encourage everyone to develop and maintain an open mind to everything. Our journey into this realm is to learn without limitation until we wear out. It is  important to follow that  inner voice that speaks, fill the missing gaps of curiousity, ask unfiltered questions, engage in a limitless, boardless, fearless, censorship resistant conversations with endless imagination. Maybe one day, we can get to the lands beyond the firmament.  Wouldn't you want to pay a visit and see what's beyond?

Lets move Mulanje mountain together, pour Lake Malawi into a cup and bring back sound money, free people and make Africa boarderless. I'd like you my reader that after you read this blog, your teeth and skin turn orange and develop your own intuition and look outside again!  

Mwalandilidwa, khalani omasuka!