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Welcome to DecentralFreight

This project is about making technology work for the 'little guy'. Lately all we hear about is 'data centers', 'data mining', 'AI-powered innovation' (like what does that even mean?)...it's all pretty ominous and sounds so far away. Who's benefitting from these 'advancements'? Not supposed to ask that. But wait! Behold I give you Decentral Freight! A leveraging of tech and innovation that will punch back like Rocky, and against the odds, work for those of us that make the world go 'round.

The Main Premise

And then there was crypto. I first got into crypto around Christmas of 2020. I bought a $1,000 worth of Dogecoin and thought it was the coolest thing ever. I'd dabbled with futures trading previously and used MultiCharts for free, listened to trader-sponsoring firm's podcasts and morning shows, and dreamt of financial freedom via daytrading. Five months later my Dogecoin had 70X'd and I thought I was really something for taking a chance plunking down my hard cash for this 'cybermoney'. Months after that, it all retreated to pennies and heartbreak, but it was my first rodeo!

You see I wasn't taught that one of the keys to growing your wealth was investing. I heard that my grandfather had "money tied up" in investments but I never inquired as to how that worked. All I knew was that you worked hard and were damn proud of whatever you got by the sweat of your brow. You worked, you paid your taxes, and social security was all sorted out and ready for you when you got tired. So, I worked. And didn't invest.

Lessons Learned

Figuring out you spent half your adult life going about achieving some amount of financial independence wrong was a gut punch. After seeing the power of investing, I had to admit I was both humbled and excited. Now what? Crypto cycles were akin to other markets in that they had ebb and flow, and my naive self, though I knew the Bible story of 7 fat years 7 lean years, didn't think to take some profit before the winter season. Frank Sinatra sings "Life is like the seasons". Boy ain't that the truth. So with my deflated bags and tempation towards being bitter after being so flush with victory, I began to see past the quick gainz in crypto and look into it's uses beyond simply betting on ponies. What shocked me, was that here was the tech that stood ready to do battle against the entrenched power of our time.

"Here was the tech that stood ready to do battle against the entrenched power of our time"

But how? Technology is something Bill Gates uses to build tyrannical systems of eventual repression and servitude. Digital IDs, social credit scores, invasive new drugs and fake food - that's not exactly giving us a rosy, heartwarming feeling towards technology. But the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, was on to something. The bankers of the world, rightly believe, that those who control the world's money supply care not who runs/governs/watches over countries. Just hang around a media outlet during election season and you know that the ONLY consideration is who raises the most cash. The biggest warchest. That's who's gonna be your winner, most times. And if you hold the keys to the world's credit/liquidity/cash, then everybody who wants to be somebody comes bowing down before you for your blessing. It's as simple as that. With Bitcoin, it's different. There is no Secret Society, hedge fund, billionaire master manipulator, or government who has the keys to this new, novel option of money, store of value, and source for credit (you can borrow against it). Games are played to suppress prices and try and curtail the eventual success of Bitcoin, but ultimately the blockchain is immutable, and when a few more percentage points of the population realize it's our ticket to divest ourselves of inflation, currency manipulation, and control by tyrannical and often wicked minds, they will not be able to stop us from taking away from them their most prized possession: the ability to print dollars and allocate it to what "they" deem worthy. And in the process rob the rest of us of savings, stable markets, and peace of mind knowing that the value of our dollars we work for today, "should" be there for us 5 years from now.

Key Takeaways

So Matt - how does it work? The Bitcoin network is maintained by both individuals with an old cellphone hanging around, and monstrous companies that buy millions worth of computing power to mine new coins and run the network around the world. It's scale is mind-blowing. The second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, is where our home will be. Also maintained by many billions of dollars spent to secure the network by diverse parties. Coinbase has launched an ecosystem they call BASE that's nested on Ethereum to take advantage of its security. After Shippers upload funds for paying Carriers, and after Carriers receive payments for loads hauled, it is highly recommended that you peek around BASE and begin to understand the nature of money outside what's called 'traditional finance'. You can borrow without credit scores, invest in new and existing projects, send funds to family, friends, and business partners, setup a trading strategy that works like a 401k but infinitely better...the sky is the limit. And, of course, you can toss a few bucks at dog coins :)

Ready to revolutionize freight? Stay tuned for updates! 🚛