Once upon a time, in the west of the World Wide Web, there were 5 feudal over lords. Appel, Alpha, Amaze, Meta & Flix. Appel was the good looking one. Alpha was the smart one. Amazon was the strong one. Meta the young and wild one, and Flix the chill and a bit lazy one.Together they ruled over all of the World Wide Web.

They came to power with a lot of good intentions. Do no evil. Connect the world. Support the crazy ones. But we all learned that absolute power corrupts.

Their levies were heavy. They purposefully censored communication. They collaborated with those in power before them. To make sure their rule would extend into eternity. They centralized the value they created. For themselves and their financers. They rose to become the top 0.1% owning 50% of the wealth. They acted as a parasite for artists, created a gig economy, crippled innovation. You could not survive without them, but they were eating you alive. They gave their participants bread and circuses. You earned the smallest amount for some bread. And you got a lot of meaningless circuses entertainment.

But, suddenly, one day, there was this new discovery. A technology that seemed magical. A technology that could change everything. But also a bit scary to some.

Created by a mysterious maker. From whom we knew just the name. No photo, no nationality, no background. But what he created was brilliant.

But also scary and a potential thread to Appel, Alpha, Amaze, Fabo & Flix. The technology could help creators, artists and gig-workers to overthrow current power. By starting real communities. Communities that created value for it’s participants. And no longer for their overlords.

The magical concept was: decentralization at speed and scale.

Appel, Alpha, Amaze, Fabo, Flix & their collaborators were not going to let that be. Their strategies were twofold. First appear interested to embed the technology themselves. Second: work in secret with the regulators. To ensure the technology's potential gets diminished. And support a couple of accidents to create fear, uncertainty and doubt. With help from entrepreneurs claiming to embrace the decentralization ethos. But in fact were centralizing power as much as the existing overlords.

Concepts like self sovereign identity & ownership increasingly seemed like madman dreams. People were made to believe they could not trust themselves or their fellowman. They needed the big centralized networks, institutions to govern them.

But the real fear should have always been about central ownership & control. That is where history has shown the worst of mankind comes out. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Luckily for this galaxy far, far away the mysterious maker doxed himself at last. He came from a galaxy far, far away. He was send as a representative by the united planets of the Milkyway. To help humankind realize their second enlightment.

The second dark ages came to an end. The feudal overlords were made redundant. The people once more ruled their own lands, now physically and digitally.

His name was Satoshi Nakamoto.