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[00:00:00]The digital offshore is one of the single greatest unexplored narratives in crypto and today we're going to get into it and explain why dark fi is the digital offshore and why that could change crypto forever. Let's get on to it.

[00:00:13]So firstly we have to answer the question what is the offshore system but before here's a quote from our dear friend Nassim Taleb which just like any smart person that is not terminally online and a crypto guy has completely lost all interest in crypto because again crypto has nothing to offer to the world outside of gambling and he says this is something he wrote on X few years ago when he was bashing Bitcoin.

[00:00:36]The appeal of a cryptocurrency depends on some opacity. It's ability to facilitate tax fraud and money laundering. And he is 100% right and today we're going to discuss why Nassim Taleb is right about crypto. So firstly what is offshore financial wealth according to the EU tax observatory?

[00:00:51]Offshore financial wealth is a household offshore financial wealth refers to the financial assets held by individuals in financial centers outside of the residency country. Financial assets include bank deposits, portfolios of securities and offshore bank deposits are deposits held in foreign banks in financial centers. For example deposits on a Swiss bank account owned by a French resident as an example. So this is what offshore financial wealth is.

[00:01:12]And the digital offshore as you can see would be I'm not talking in terms of like nominal GDP okay the output produced per year but it would be the third largest economy if you compare it to the nominal GDP of the largest countries. It would be in third place.

[00:01:26]What the output of this economy is I have found no information on it but because of its sheer size I would imagine the output would be among one of the largest on earth. And so the question is what percentage of the offshore slice of the third largest economy not nominally speaking on earth can crypto take? And if we're talking a very very tiny percentage we're talking about something much bigger than Bitcoin. And the truth is this is more appealing than just the offshore wealth.

[00:01:50]It also appeals to essentially anyone who's in the top 1.6% of wealth on earth. Essentially anyone that has a couple million dollars. The vast, vast majority of people imagine offshore as a few billionaires hiding money on tropical islands. And the reality is way larger than this, okay? Offshore finance is effectively a completely parallel planetary operating system for capital.

[00:02:10]And these numbers alone are staggering.

[00:02:12]So, untaxed offshore wealth, according to Oxfam in 2024, was estimated around 3.5 trillion dollars. And that alone exceeds the GDP of France and more than double the combined of the GDP of the world's 48 for at least developed countries. But that is only an estimated untaxed hidden portion. The total offshore wealth was estimated around 13.25 trillion in 2023. And there's a lot of independent analysts that believe that the true number is much higher once you include shadow banking, private trusts, derivative structures, sovereign wealth arrangements, dark pools, cross-border hidden ownership, institutional capital routing. And some estimates historically reach 20 to 30 trillion dollars, okay? Just staggering, staggering amounts of money. But no one, at least online, knows for sure how big offshore is. The number everyone is more certain of is those 13 trillion. So, this is one of the largest hidden liquidity systems ever constructed.

[00:03:04]That's what we're talking about here.

[00:03:06]And the question is, why hasn't crypto tackled this? Because there's no privacy, because there's no anonymity.

[00:03:11]And you need anonymity to compete with the system, and that's what Dark Forest going to deliver. So, offshore is bigger than most countries, not in terms of the output, but in terms of GDP. And it would be a larger than Japan, Germany, India, the United Kingdom. It's massive.

[00:03:23]As you can see illustrated here to you.

[00:03:25]Another thing that's very important is to understand that this is not cash sitting in vaults. This is stocks, bonds, real estate holdings, corporate ownership, hedge fund structures, private equity, luxury assets, commodity exposure, derivatives, shipping networks, okay? This is what's called flags of convenience and also energy flows. So, as an example here, flags of convenience means a shipping company registers its ship in a foreign country instead of its own country in order to get tax advantages. And so, a ship may be owned by an American company, a Greek billionaire, or a Chinese logistics firm, but legally the ship is registered, say, in Panama, in Liberia, in the Marshall Islands. And those countries become the ship's flag state.

[00:04:02]So, the ship flies that country's flag.

[00:04:04]And so, flags of convenience are basically just physical world jurisdictional arbitrage. And what Dark Fi represents is cryptographic jurisdictional arbitrage. Instead of asking, you know, which country protects me, what Dark Fi asks is, what if cryptography itself becomes the jurisdiction? Backed by mathematics, by a fully decentralized layer one blockchain. This is very appealing. And the reason why this system exists is because visibility is economically dangerous for a lot of these people.

[00:04:30]People assume that offshore systems emerge primarily because the elite is greedy. And sure, greed is part of it, but structurally offshore systems emerged because the capital is seeking escape velocity from political friction.

[00:04:43]These are real business people with needs, and the current system doesn't satisfy them. So, taxes, capital controls, asset seizure, political instability, inflation, sanctions, regime changes, surveillance, requirements about disclosure. The offshore system is civilization's immune response against excessive centralization, against state oppression. And that is why it keeps reappearing throughout history. But the thing here is, all the bureaucrats, the politicians, the people work within the state, they also need this escape hatch.

[00:05:10]They need this to safeguard their own selves. And one of the most interesting things that happened recently was what the Panama Papers revealed, which was enormous, and the leaks kind of accidentally exposed this hidden law of uh civilization. The most powerful people on Earth do not trust visible systems. They want you and me to use them, but they don't really trust them.

[00:05:29]Politicians publicly promote transparency, but then privately they use shell structures, they use trusts, they use foundations, they use cross-jurisdictional ownership, opaque financial vehicles. Here in Brazil, for example, if you look at Lava Jato, which exposed maybe the largest corruption scandal in politics ever, they all had Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Islands bank accounts, attorney shell companies made.

[00:05:51]Anyways, the people included in the system are billionaires, heads of state, corporations, royal families, aristocracy, intelligence adjacent actors, global financial elites.

[00:06:01]Intelligence here also plays a big role because they need to fund their proxies, their side ops, and something like DarkFi could be extremely useful for three-letter agencies as well. So, opacity is kind of like already considered essential by the ruling class. And the public is completely excluded from it. So, I don't think DarkFi is necessarily a tool for the poor or the majority of the people, but it kind of democratizes the access to offshore and to these hidden systems that provide the elites with opacity.

[00:06:28]And that is truly like the explosive implication here when we're talking about DarkFi. Democratizing the access to opacity. And offshore is not this fringe thing, it is a systemic thing, it is part of the system. Very few people know about it, and I think crypto should tackle it, and we should talk more about it. The Cayman Islands, for example, according to stuff written in the Panama Papers, they hold trillions connected to hedge funds and institutional structures despite having a very, very tiny population. The British Virgin Islands became one of the largest shell company jurisdictions on Earth. The entire Eurodollar market created an offshore dollar system so massive that arguably kind of rivals official sovereign monetary systems. So, offshore finance is capitalism. It's not outside of capitalism, it's also a living and breathing part of capitalism. And it's one of capitalism's hidden circulatory, let's say, organs. And why is this bullish for DarkFi? The Panama and the Pandora Papers, they unintentionally validate the DarkFi thesis. The thesis is already validated, my friends, because they kind of prove that the demand for this opacity, this economic opacity, is permanent and also growing.

[00:07:28]This is not just a phase, this is not just some hype, this is permanent need for opacity. If you look at this graph here, okay, about privacy, I think it's the easiest sell ever in crypto. Because when we look at the number of adults in terms of percentage that have million dollars or more, we're talking about 1.6% of the population right here on top of this pyramid. Okay, this is the global wealth pyramid and 1.6% hold almost half of all the wealth on the world. I think it's extremely easy to sell the digital offshore thesis to these people because they all need it, all of them. I think it's very easy to sell this. Even within the this number, the majority of people don't use offshore. But, the way to sell this is I think very simple. Like, current offshore system is slow, it's expensive, lawyer dependent, jurisdiction dependent, it's gated by the elites, it is very politically fragile because there's always some whistleblower, some journalist, some hacker that can tear this thing down a little bit. And Dark Fi represents the protocolization of these functions. So, instead of like trust islands and banks and intermediaries and secrecy laws and NDAs, Dark Fi just gives you trust the mathematics, trust the cryptography. And another thing is, before AI, this is very important, surveillance was limited by human processing capacity. And now with AI, every transparent system is basically machine readable by AI. And privacy is no longer a luxury, privacy is infrastructure. And it's very important permanent infrastructure. And this is why crypto is now bifurcating and the world is bifurcating. And especially in crypto, you're going to have regulated finance, KYC, AML, which I think everything else outside of say Dark Fi, Monero is going to be Reg Fi.

[00:08:58]Then you're going to have Dark Fi, which unlike Reg Fi is not going to be fully visible, it's not going to be integrated with AI, that's going to machine read all your patterns, and it's not going to be institutionally managed finance. It's going to be cryptographically opaque parallel economic system. It's going to be part of this offshore wealth. The key here is Dark Fi threatens the asymmetry here by democratizing the access to economic opacity itself, which is what Nassim Taleb was saying crypto is all about. Another thing that's very important, if you see Peter Thiel's recent comments on crypto, where he's basically saying like privacy and this anarchist cypherpunk ideology, this infrastructure is becoming one of the most politically important technologies of the century. And he's disappointed with crypto. Like, who's building for this? No one's building for this. And so now we see a VC push on stuff like Zcash, but Zcash solves none of these issues because you can't do anything with it. Same thing goes for Monero. And so it's time that we have an Ethereum but that's fully anonymous. And that's Darkfire. And so before I end the video, put on the full armor of God so that you can take a stand against the devil's schemes. Ephesians 6:11. If you want to say religiously or poetically what is Darkfire, it's the full armor of God because for some reason people say that God smiles upon encryption because it's easier in the world to encrypt than to decrypt. So I'll see you guys on the next video.

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