In this YouTube video, the host opens with a cinematic excerpt from Ready Player One that portrays the Oasis as a yearning for meaning in a virtual world. Using this as a metaphor, the host explains the concept of the metaverse, describing its potential to reshape social interaction, economies, and identity through immersive VR and blockchain technologies. The narrative critiques the growing corporate dominance of platforms like Meta (formerly Facebook), warning that centralized control could dictate the rules and ownership of virtual spaces. The video then introduces the Bitcoin MYK (Btcmyk) project, positioning it as a decentralized solution that provides a universal basic income within virtual worlds such as Decentraland and The Sandbox, thereby preventing monopolistic control of metaverse resources. Throughout, the host emphasizes the importance of community‑governed, open‑source virtual economies and calls viewers to support decentralized metaverse initiatives.
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nickname because it sounded like a superhero's alter ego, like Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. But he died when I was a kid. My mom too. And I ended up here, sitting here in my tiny corner of nowhere. There's nowhere left to go. Nowhere except the Oasis. A whole virtual universe. People come to the Oasis for all the things they can do, but they stay because of all the things they can be. Can you feel this? Yeah, it's the only place that feels like I mean anything. The Oasis was the brainchild of James Halliday.
Hello. If you're watching this, I'm dead. I created a hidden object, an Easter egg. The first person to find the egg will inherit half a trillion dollars and total control of the Oasis itself.
Who is this Parzival, and how the hell is he winning? Find him.
Welcome back to the channel. And I hope you all are having a great day. So I want to talk about— excuse me— I want to talk today about the metaverse. What is the metaverse? It's a term we're hearing quite often now in the media. Facebook is now changing its name to Meta, and it's creating, as many of the demos we've seen, what would appear to be this 3D virtual world, um, using technology from VR headsets to haptic suits that experience touch and feel, um, and moving our experience, uh, with the online, our online interactions, moving it into the next level where it's not that we're these outside entities, uh, uh, basically experiencing internet, but we're actually now in the internet, so to speak, right? And so, uh, we've seen this play out in the movies like The Matrix. We've seen— this is a trailer from Ready Player 2001. And I, I picked this trailer because I think it's probably one of the easiest ways to understand the metaverse. Because what I liked about the movie— and I don't want to give it away just in case you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it— but it pulls a lot in. The socioeconomics gets pulled into, uh, what the metaverse is. Uh, it gets pulled into it in a way where you can experience what it means to these people's value systems 10, 20, 30 years into the future. Right. The speed of our technology is moving us ever so closer to, uh, these worlds where, uh, in a time where our, our fiction and facts are so close together, they're hard to, to distinguish the two. And it's becoming like that day in and day out with our high-end iPhones and Oculus, uh, devices and so on and so forth. Our driverless cars, our Tesla, you know, the suits and so on. And so metaverse comes from an— the term itself comes from a 1992 novel written by Neal Stephenson known as Snow Crash. And what Snow Crash was about was it was kind of this dystopian future where people were going to this VR virtual world using devices we use today, a lot more advanced. So they would use a drug like a hallucinogenic drug as well to even make the experience even more immersive and, and real, undistinguishable from reality. And this is the future we're moving in. Now, where the blockchain comes to this, a lot of what we hear about like Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and just our society in general, and we got to see it during the pandemic, is that almost your entire lives are going to be conducted online to the point you're going to create these avatars and personalities, like pretty much like we have today. We have these psychological, uh, different versions of ourselves known to the world on the internet that might be exactly the same as what you, you experience and who you are in real life, and it may be some version of that, right? Now with this, this is more literal, and then it plays out with the, these avatars that can change form, represent you or some aspect of you. And that's what the metaverse is all about. What is so interesting about what our future is going to look like is all of the business as well, our finances, our entertainment, our social activities are going to be conducted virtually 3D. And a lot of people, uh, can't believe that, or they're disillusioned about it, but it, it is the reality of what is happening to us now. We can see it evolving into that, and that's what's going to come of this. What is so very interesting about this is technology-wise, being able to recreate, imagine creating and experiencing a high-performance sports car that costs $300,000, $400,000, not being able to completely tell the difference, and, and, or not even needing a sports car at all, being able to teleport to your favorite vacation spots and locations and feel the, the, the breeze on your face, right, from the ocean, and so on and so forth. Imagine what that does to the travel economy. Imagine what that does to the economy overall when you are fulfilled by things that as a human being you never really needed in the first place, right? As to say, uh, you know, human beings, uh, who may have several homes and so on and so forth, you may experience a virtual state, a virtual vacation, etc. right? That would change your values. You may find you don't need those things as much anymore, right? And that's what happens in movies like Ready Player One. Of course, when they go back to the real world, the resource of the trillions of dollars that would be created by this virtual goods economy and these virtual realities would chase people outside of the virtual world into the real world. So it becomes— the lines become blurred. And that's what gen— that is what's happening With our technology today, that's what's happening with blockchain technology, that what you do on the blockchain, that what you do in these virtual worlds are parallel to what, how your real life is going to be impacted and affected. Same thing with social media. What people do on social media has real life implications in their money and their livelihood and their emotions and their social activities. Right? Because those personas that exist online impact the reality of who you are. And that's what's happening with the metaverse. That's of course now, uh, when we're talking about in the cryptocurrency, there are so many of them. Projects like BitcoinMYK that I'm spearheading, uh, will use resources, the trillions of dollars like the metaverse to create universal basic income projects One big problem in the depiction movies like Ready Player One, the metaverse, is that who will control this new frontier of resources? And companies are scrambling to control it. Companies like Facebook. Interesting about with Facebook getting involved in the movie that I think is probably the best example of this. There's a company chasing the regular people like us trying to control those resources, right? So we have to fear, uh, agencies like Facebook getting involved. But we should make no mistake about it, Facebook owns Oculus. Facebook has a great amount of resources to create some of the best technology to be used in these virtual worlds, to control the money of these virtual worlds. Projects like Bitcoin MYK are trying to set us free by creating, uh, universal base guaranteed income to distribute to everyone in these virtual worlds. And we plan to do that by setting up and bridging the gap in these virtual worlds, creating these gateways that allow our cryptocurrency to link to many of these virtual worlds and distribute the money amongst all the citizens of the world in this, what will be our new future reality. And that's very important that we don't end up under the control and slavery in these virtual worlds after the resources of our and the economies of our standard reality has already been usurped, taken from the people, and the people struggle like they do today to survive in both worlds, right? This could create such an abundance in our psychology and mental landscape of how we view resources, right? Again, if you're able to take an exotic vacation, uh, uh, have the experience of owning a private jet, several homes, uh, have the experience of, uh, dating, uh, the hottest swimwear models, all these things to a point that your value system begins to accept it over other, uh, general ideas of reality, then that can have, uh, uh, affect values and abundance. A lot of Earth's resources are locked up with just a few people, like 1% of population, not because they need it, but because their value systems psychologically, they are trapped in this, this area of by controlling these resources, they can control people. In a virtual reality where that's no longer important, where everybody can symbolically be rich to the point in their mind psychologically, they don't put as much value on certain resources other people hold or use to control them. And as long as we can create universal basic income so that people aren't starved into submission like the Bitcoin MYK project plans to do, this can be a good thing and not a bad thing. But that's all I want to say in the video. Make sure you join projects like Bitcoin MYK today so that we don't become slaves of these metaverse-like systems, uh, that are going to happen anyway. If you're in the cryptocurrency trying to make money, off these things. We don't really know which ones are going to make the money. Don't fool yourself into thinking one of a million of these projects you
