The Mark Moss Show The System Is Rigged… And Bitcoin Wasn’t Supposed to Survive | Simon Dixon
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Feb 26, 2026 
Simon Dixon, entrepreneur and longtime Bitcoin thinker and founder/CEO of BNK to the Future. He unpacks how capital control shapes global power. He traces central banking origins, currency wars, and asset consolidation. He explores how Wall Street shifted toward Bitcoin, stablecoins’ limits, and why self-custody and local investing matter for financial sovereignty.
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Financial Industrial Complex Controls Power
- A Financial Industrial Complex now centralizes power by controlling capital flows, media, technology, and debt instruments.
- Simon Dixon connects asset managers, commercial banks, and investment banks into a system that vassalizes individuals, corporations, and countries via custody and indebtedness.
How Central Banking Built Global Debt Power
- Central banking evolved from the Bank of England model to the Federal Reserve to fund wars and extract assets through debt and mercantilism.
- Dixon traces asset-stripping via imperial finance, BIS operations, and postwar dollar dominance that enabled the modern debt Ponzi.
Petrodollar And Fiat Enabled Global Extraction
- The dollar system was sustained by forcing global demand for treasuries through trade, military influence, and reconstruction structures like IMF/World Bank.
- Nixon's 1971 gold exit accelerated a pure fiat debt regime enabling larger-scale debt extraction.