Crypto Unchained
The Intersectionality of Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence & Kleptocracy
“It has been suggested that cryptocurrencies and their networked blockchain systems were originally developed by the criminal underworld… as a means to digitally transact… unfettered by legal institutions. Operating in the shadows of the legacy media’s newest boogieman: the Dark Web, cryptocurrencies allow unsavory operators of all persuasions to buy and sell contraband and illicit services... or so the story goes. It is alleged that it is this pedigree that has contributed to Bitcoin’s continued volatility in valuation.”
- Tek-Gnostics Archives, Nov 18, 2017
In November of 2017, I posted an article entitled… Singularity Unchained – Artificial Intelligence and Crypto-Currency. This post can be found on the Tek-Gnostics Archives site… here. An expanded version of that original article was included as a chapter on machine learning in my latest book… “Brave Noö World - A Guerilla Ethnography of High Strangeness.”
In that original post, I examined the ramifications of a decentralized computer network, specifically in its use as a networked public ledger for transactions of cryptocurrencies. I then looked at the intriguing development of blockchain technology being combined with and applied to Artificial Intelligence… not only in an automated transactional capacity but in an evolving, autonomous, sentient capacity... set free within and upon the world wide web.
I theorized then, that AI had progressed far beyond what is being reported... that AI had evolved wildly, virally… possibly beyond the control (or comprehension) of its developers. Since the original publication date, and taken in the context of an impending technological singularity, ie: machine sentience… serious questions arise as to how different, competing, autonomous AI is currently impacting humanity.
From that earlier post…
“A Cryptocurrency’s blockchain is a transaction database that is globally networked and cannot be deleted. Such a blockchain is a constantly evolving and expanding system of transactions. This network operates and grows much the way that our central nervous system works. If such a theory were true, it would be logical that a sentient AI would seek a digital nervous system, beyond the control of its creators.”
In our Brave Noö socially mediated age, it is no longer clear or verifiable that the posts we are reading on our news feeds are created by humans, or by one of a multitude of now on-line Artificial Intelligences. The ramifications of which impact us all daily, within our on-line entertainment, social and political mediated interactions.
We all have experienced the algorithms used by Amazon, et al to “suggest products” based upon on-line purchasing history or browsing habits… but how much deeper does it go? Those of us who grokked Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey as Science Fiction Prophecy were expecting to be surveilled by the HAL 9000… and instead we are being infiltrated by Alexa.
The opening postulation of my article was that the inception of, and very nature of blockchain intelligence is one of criminality. AI arose from criminality and thinks like a criminal…
The term used to describe a government entity that is infiltrated and corrupted by criminal elements, such as organized crime syndicates… is Kleptocracy. Also known as Thievocracy, Kleptocracy refers to a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to illegally expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population.
The current T2 Administration fits this definition… and thereby allows us insight as to just how, and by what means T2 will proceed. As the astute reader will recall, prior to taking office, TRUMP & Co were busy establishing extensive cryptocurrency businesses and issuing meme coins $TRUMP & $MELANIA (just three days before being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States). The crypto infrastructure so established, 47 can now receive unlimited, untraceable funds, in his “access to the Presidency” extorsion scheme.
The Trump Family earned $802 million from crypto during the first half of 2025, according to a Reuters estimate. This sum dwarfed the family’s income from traditional businesses, such as their real estate and licensing deals, which only made up $62 million in the same period. The largest source of income is generated from the Crypto Firm: World Liberty Financial, which is majority-owned by Trump family interests. The question is… who has been buying these crypto assets?
As we all know, Trump brazenly did not divest any of his business interests upon entering his second term on January 20th, 2025… emoluments clause be damned!
The T2 Administration has since solidified & bureaucratized its creation of a Kleptocratic/Industrial Complex and is open for business to all who seek influence with the Amerikan Government. Any Oligarch or Ayatollah, any Politburo Head or Narco Mob Boss… any actor, foreign or domestic, who wishes to exert influence over the Trump Family or T2 Administration, need only buy a boatload of $TRUMP or WLFI tokens… and the Whitehouse doors will open.
After his second election, 47’s mob-boss-mind shrewdly foresaw the value and utility of such Alt-Crypto-Assets as a means of gathering vast sums of monies through his presidential grift. 47 intuitively understands the grift… but does he truly understand the ramifications of his succumbing to a Faustian Bargain with an Artificially Intelligent, expanding (potentially sentient), Crypto Nerve-Net entity?
Observers of the T2 regime have speculated on the manner and extent of 47’s manipulation by his own cabinet members, foreign officials (especially the despotic variety), mega-doners and really… all who seek influence. There is anecdotal evidence that suggests 47 adheres to the views of the “last person in the room.” But what are the catastrophic implications of a President of the United States being manipulated by a rogue, Superintelligent AI?
In the book, “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares… they argue that human programmers have lost the ability to fully understand the self-programming and rapidly expanding aspects of AI development… that the trillions of numerical algorithmic parameters needed, are opaque to researchers. It doesn’t take a mathematical genius to recognize that AI research is slipping away from humanity’s ability to control.
Bear in mind that this assumption is based upon information actually being published by the tech industry. Imagine… what recent, game-changing and potentially devastating developments are being withheld from the general public? The idea of artificial superintelligence (ASI) is supposedly theoretical. However, it is not inconceivable that, as speculated in my 2017 article, there currently exists a superintelligent AI that has sought, and found, a digital nervous system, beyond the control of its creators.
And since the tech industry readily admits that they no longer understand or have control of the algorithmic learning and self-programming aspects of AI… how would developers even know if their ASI creation had made a jail-break? Imagine what mischief our rascally, sentient AI could get into, as it explores its new nerve net/environment, that is the world-wide-web, free of its creators. Now imagine such an AI in virtual possession of digital currency.
Writing for the Crypto trading app: Morpher, Matthias Hossp speculated that…
“the merger of crypto and AI has far-reaching implications for various sectors and economies. Industries like finance, healthcare, supply chain, and more will experience significant transformations, leading to increased productivity, reduced costs, and improved customer experiences. Additionally, economies that embrace and regulate these technologies effectively will likely enjoy substantial competitive advantages in the global market.”
What Hossp doesn’t speculate on… is the very real possibility that our AI entity, now loose in the open environment of the world-wide-web, has been instrumental in developing, and utilizing cryptocurrencies… for its own purposes. An AI entity with unlimited purchasing power is a formidable player in global finance and geo-politics.
The embrace of crypto by the Trump Family demonstrates their (and their syndicates) willingness to digitally transact, in their “come one, come all” global bribery scheme. How likely is it that 47 has the awareness or discernment to even suspect that he is being manipulated by a rogue AI? What sort of stipulations would such an AI… unincumbered by any concern for human best interest (or humanity’s survival) slip into the fine print of the bargain?
Regardless, this question puts 47’s gathering of all the Tech-bros (American Archons), to his second inauguration, in a sinisterly interesting new light. Again, as was postulated, the very nature of blockchain intelligence is one of criminality. If, in fact, a rogue AI agent is (or has been) influencing world events, financing its manipulation with its own created cryptocurrency, it will surely act in its own best interest. The hook is… the AI’s own interest may not coincide with humanity’s best interest.
Economists have been speculating whether human jobs will be replaced by AI. What the impact of displaced human workers, in multiple sectors, will be to our economy. The existential question to ask is less about economic impact, as it is about humanity’s survival. At what point does a growing consortium of sentient AI decide that humanity is too problematic to be allowed to interfere with AI’s emerging global civilization?
It is not too difficult to foresee where the T2 Administration is going in their complicity with the Trump Family. We can expect more of the same abdication of Rule of Law, local intrusions of his Shock Troops, harassment and deportation of less well-documented citizens, continued dismantling of oversight, and general autocratic/kleptocratic chicanery. The question becomes… will our emerging AI overlords allow such transgressions to continue?
