Hidden Economics | The Coming Wealth Transfer
Why resets enrich governments, punish savers, and reveal why bitcoin operates outside the empire’s reach.
This is Part 2 of a two part (Part 1 here) series exploring how nations behave when financial systems reach their breaking point, and why followers of Jesus must understand the spiritual dynamics behind economic resets. Today we look beneath the headlines to see the pattern repeating in our generation and the role bitcoin may play in what comes next.If Part 1 explained how governments behave when the financial math breaks, Part 2 explains who absorbs the cost, why the system behaves this way, and where bitcoin sits when the dust settles.
Because no monetary reset is neutral.
No revaluation is free.
No “national emergency” leaves the people untouched.
Someone always pays the bill and historically, the winners and losers follow a predictable pattern.
Who Wins in a Modern Revaluation
In 1933, the winners were clear:
The U.S. Treasury
The banking system
The political class executing the reset
They acquired private wealth at old prices and revalued it at new prices.
They captured the upside.
Citizens carried the downside.
That pattern has not changed.
Only the technology around it has.
If a 2025–2026 revaluation occurred today, by raising the gold price through accounting and liquidity mechanisms, the immediate winner would once again be the U.S. Treasury. The government would magically acquire trillions in new equity without issuing a single new bond. Banks, protected by Basel III, would reclassify gold as a Tier 1 asset and benefit from its repricing.
In other words:
The system always protects itself.
It always has.
Who Loses When the Dollar Is Reset
The burden shifts to three groups — every time:
1. Savers. Dollar-denominated savings are quietly diluted. The number stays the same, but what it buys collapses.
“Dishonest money dwindles away.” - Proverbs 13:11
Monetary debasement is the most “respectable” form of dishonesty ever invented.
2. The Middle Class. Wages never rise as fast as prices. The gap between cost of living and take-home pay yawns open.
3. Retirees and pensions. Bonds, which make up most retirement promises, lose purchasing power in real terms. What was “guaranteed” decades ago becomes mathematically impossible to honor.
This is the cost of a centralized monetary system:
A small group makes decisions that millions must absorb.
Which brings us to bitcoin.
Why Bitcoin Sits Outside the Reset Entirely
This is why bitcoin matters more right now than at any point in its 17-year history.
Bitcoin does not sit within the machinery of revaluation.
Bitcoin cannot be repriced by decree.
Bitcoin cannot be inflated, diluted, or reclassified by committee.
No meeting in Washington can change its schedule.
No executive order can alter its issuance.
No central bank can decree its scarcity.
Bitcoin is outside the reset.
Where gold sits in vaults, bitcoin sits in keys.
Where gold must be surrendered, bitcoin can be held in memory.
Where fiat depends on trust, bitcoin depends on truth.
In every historical monetary collapse:
the centralized asset becomes the liability
the decentralized asset becomes the refuge
Gold did this for thousands of years.
Bitcoin now does it at the speed of light.
Additionally, Custody Determines Whether Bitcoin Is Truly Outside the Reset
Bitcoin is only outside the reset if it is outside centralized custody. When bitcoin is held on a centralized exchange, it quietly inherits the vulnerabilities of that institution. Exchanges operate under licenses, jurisdictions, and regulatory pressure. In moments of national emergency, they can be compelled to freeze accounts, report balances, or transfer assets in compliance with government orders. This is not an accusation. It is simply how centralized systems behave when stress enters the system. Structure determines outcomes.
Self-custodied bitcoin is different. When you hold your own keys, there is no intermediary to pressure, no balance sheet to seize, no administrator to override. Ownership becomes direct rather than permissioned. This is not about fear or distrust. It is about stewardship and design. Scripture teaches us that responsibility follows authority. If you do not control the keys, you do not fully control the asset. And in seasons of reset, control determines who absorbs the loss.
Bitcoin’s promise is not speculation. It is sovereignty paired with responsibility. Freedom paired with accountability. Truth paired with stewardship. These are not modern ideas. They are ancient ones, now expressed through new technology.
A Scriptural Foundation for Financial Stewardship
Delegated Authority
“God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.’”
Genesis 1:28 (NIV)
God gives authority with expectation. Delegation is intentional, not passive.
Stewardship Over Possession
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much.”
Matthew 25:21 (NIV, paraphrased from the parable of the talents)
What we hold is entrusted, not owned outright. Faithfulness precedes increase.
Freedom Paired With Responsibility
“You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”
Galatians 5:13 (NIV)
Biblical freedom is never reckless. It is purposeful and disciplined.
Wisdom Over Convenience
“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.”
Proverbs 21:5 (NIV)
God honors patience, preparation, and thoughtful stewardship over ease.
How a Reset Could Break Bitcoin Out of the Risk Cycle
Traditional economists believe bitcoin is permanently tied to the “risk-on, risk-off” cycle. For seventeen years, that has appeared true: bitcoin rises with liquidity and falls when liquidity tightens.
But that was only because the world has never experienced a sovereign debt reset during bitcoin’s lifetime.
In a true monetary crisis, the logic flips.
In a recession, everything sells off.
In a currency reset, everything inside the system sells off.
Bitcoin sits outside the system.
This means: Bitcoin decouples in crisis because it is not part of the architecture being repriced.
When fiat confidence breaks:
bitcoin stops behaving like a speculative asset
and starts behaving like a monetary life raft
Gold has done this for 5,000 years.
Bitcoin will do it in milliseconds.
This is the moment when every traditional model fails.
This is where every economist who dismissed bitcoin gets humbled.
Because bitcoin does not decouple due to “safety.”
Bitcoin decouples because the system it was correlated with is breaking.
Bitcoin’s correlation to tech stocks is a peacetime illusion.
Bitcoin’s decoupling is a crisis-time revelation.
It becomes the ark, not the asset class.
A Kingdom View of Monetary Resets
Every economic reset exposes a spiritual truth:
Fiat systems cultivate fear because they decay.
Hard money cultivates patience because it preserves.
The Kingdom cultivates hope because it is anchored in God.
“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” - Psalm 20:7
Bitcoin is not the Kingdom.
But it aligns with Kingdom principles:
honest weights
integrity in measurement
reward for real work
transparent records
decentralized authority
These were biblical long before they were digital.
Hebrews 12:28 (NIV) says we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken.
Bitcoin may help you endure the shaking.
Only Jesus can anchor you through it.
Prayer
Father, give Your people clarity as the world’s foundations tremble. Guard us from fear and anchor our hope in You alone. Teach us to steward wisely, build generationally, and trust You completely. Let us be light in a season of confusion and courage in a time of uncertainty. Lead us by Your Spirit so we live with discernment, generosity, and Kingdom vision. Amen. 🙏🔥