Nipsey Hussle and Cryptocurrency

This article could be several pages deep, as well as a couple of 400-page books to try to delineate the life of Ermias Joseph Asghedom (August 15, 1985 – March 31, 2019), known professionally as Nipsey Hussle - rapper, activist, and entrepreneur.

Therefore, due to time constraints, the article writer will only focus on Nip's understanding of digital currency before most people - black or white - ever heard of it. 

The YouTube debate centered around money. What is money in 2017-18? Is it paper? Is it an agreed-upon value? What makes something a currency? 

"I think Cryptocurrency is a form of karma. The banks had such a crooked model, the engineers, programmers, and software designers were like, 'we're not going to fix this with a protest'. We will not fix this with a march on Wall Street, we will fix this with technology. They created an equalizer that checkmated the whole game. That's my view on it. It's like the energy balancing out what went wrong over there ... the disadvantages of the people, cryptocurrency will balance that out in the long run. It's gonna take a while but it will create an option."

"We will no longer have to operate in a system that led to 2008 with all the banks collapsing, the real estate bubble, mass corruption with bankers and the Central Banks. It's like damn, that was slick, whoever came up with that idea was slick. If you really peep it from a political view, that was checkmate. And they exited before anybody knew what was up."

~ Nipsey Hussle

Satoshi Nakamoto is the apocryphal character that supposedly invented bitcoin. He's the individual who implemented the first blockchain; who deployed the first decentralized digital currency. 

Obviously, this is not the person who first came up with this superb idea, as he would not be foolish enough to use his real name. But he or she was wise enough to know, "I don't want to end up like Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, or Kennedy", the only four US Presidents that were assassinated. All were assassinated because they attempted to stop U.S. money from being issued by private centralized banks, aka International Banking Cartels, and the U.S. Federal Reserve (a privately owned corporation).

So he, she, or they created Bitcoin, and immediately placed themselves in a self-imposed witness protection program and got the hell on.

Checkmate!