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Why Bitcoin's Rise Is Now Inevitable

Why Bitcoin's Rise Is Now Inevitable

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Matt McDonagh
Aug 27, 2025
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It’s a warm afternoon here in Sardinia.

From the terrace of our bedroom overlooking a turquoise blue bay, I can see olive groves that have stood for centuries and the stone walls of a farmhouse that was here long before the Italian Lira, let alone the Euro. There’s a sense of permanence here, a weight of history that puts the frantic noise of modern markets into perspective.

It reminds me that empires, and their currencies, are not eternal.

As most of you know, I didn't start my career as a Bitcoin believer. Far from it. My journey began on the trading floors of Wall Street, in the heart of the traditional financial system. I was an investment banker, fluent in the language of leverage, debt covenants, and EBITDA. We built complex models that projected futures based on the assumption that the system itself was sound. We were priests of a faith I now recognize as a cult: the cult of the ever-expanding debt supercycle.

My path took a turn.

I grew tired of shuffling paper and engineering financial outcomes that felt increasingly detached from reality.

I wanted to build, to understand the fundamental architecture of the new world being forged by technology.

I taught myself to code, dove headfirst into data engineering, and eventually found my calling in machine learning and venture capital, funding the protocols and platforms that will define the next century.

This dual-lensed experience, seeing the world through the eyes of both a Wall Street banker and a Silicon Valley technologist, has led me to one unshakable conclusion.

We are at the end of a monetary era.

The global fiat system, underpinned by the U.S. dollar, is not just flawed… it is INTENTIONALLY destined to fail.

And its replacement, the only logical and technologically sound alternative, is Bitcoin. This isn't a speculative gamble. It is the most calculated, asymmetric bet of my lifetime, a thesis I am staking my family’s generational wealth on.

Here is the data.

What I Learned from the Debt Supercycle

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