Why even try this?

So a couple people have hit me up wondering why put a bunch of effort into a project that on the face of it is doomed to underperform. Truckers aren’t a tech-savvy bunch they say (although that is increasingly inaccurate). Small businesses are paranoid to try anything new or lose their “Mom and Pop” status and generate a whole bunch of headaches adopting new methods. Big businesses are set in their ways and have little incentive to change. Well, I have a lonnnng philosophical answer for you so get some more coffee in that thermos.

Obviously it’s primarily about money. At its heart, this project is being created to restore privacy and ownership of your money. It’s no secret that forces have been conspiring to get us to stop using cash. Currently there are very few instances where we as humans pay a “person” anymore directly. A valet or tipping culture in general is about it, beyond that we are paying a corporation. It’s mind-blowing that we’ve gotten comfortable with this arrangement. Andreas Antonopoulos points this out in a podcast interview way back in 2016, and it’s only gotten worse since then. He says “cash will be eradicated, either through non-use…or countries will actively ban it”. Either way the people who want this eventuality will get it, because as cash use dwindles they will have the compelling argument that “Hey, there’s too few people using cash to even justify the expense of printing it” and they will simply terminate it. Now with that future fast approaching we have two options according to Andreas “Do we want a society in which our digital money is under complete surveillance and control (by the groups pushing for cash’s eradication), or where individuals control their money, and although it is digital money, it’s digital cash where you can pay another person without any other party getting involved”. Which is where cryptocurrency projects like ours come in. Money flows from one wallet to another, over a decentralized digital platform and banks/governments/corporations are unable to come in between the parties or get their hands on it.

Part of regaining control of our financial stability clearly resides in distancing ourselves from government mismanagement of monetary policy. Here’s the situation: the national debt got so large, even in the last century, and the interest payments on that debt have reached such a laughable figure that Washington just decided it was game over. That the debt was never going to be addressed, deficit spending has been the norm, and we can just let the numbers go up and up and up and really nobody’s gonna care because how could anybody take it seriously? So it’s business as usual: keep spending, keep laundering, keep defrauding left and right and in fact double-down on it. What we didn’t know as citizens, is that was happening. We suspected, but we didn’t know, and especially not to the extent it has only now under DOGE been revealed to have reached. The only way to concretely disembark from that trainwreck is to get out from under the dollar, because they are fast driving it into the ground. It’s pretty clear that the Federal Reserve is going to survive indefinitely and with it, our futures are grim. There’s a funny but very accurate meme where Morpheus and Neo from the Matrix are talking and Neo says “You mean I can trade my bitcoin for MILLIONS someday!?” and Morpheus says “No, when you’re ready, you won’t have to”. The whole point being, we can together create a network of goods, services, trade, and money that operates OUTSIDE the hegemony of the characters who’ve thrived and concentrated so much power into fewer and fewer hands via controlling the money supply.

What is rent-seeking and why does it matter?
Rent-seeking is when someone extracts value without creating any real benefit—think of middlemen who charge fees just for existing, without adding value to the process. In trucking, it’s the brokers who take a cut of every load, often leaving drivers with less than they deserve. On a larger scale, it’s the payment processors, loan officers, realtors, stockbrokers, SaaS creators like ELD’s that charge fees into perpetuity that don’t justify their expense. Many of these institutions act as gatekeepers to our own money. It’s time, once again, that we as human beings innovate our way out of this constant pull people have to take in as much as possible while providing little to nothing to society.

Truckers are the perfect symbol for this movement. They’re independent, resilient, and often at the mercy of rent-seeking systems—whether it’s brokers, or layover delays that don’t pay enough (most brokers offer $100-$200 per day, but drivers can lose $600 in potential earnings), or semitrucks that regularly breakdown because of planned obsolescence. I want to empower truckers to take back control. My NFT drop is a way to celebrate their spirit while planting a seed for a bigger change. Each NFT in the “Early DCF Enthusiasts” collection represents a piece of this vision—a future where we transact directly, where value flows to those who create it, and where central banks can’t dictate our financial reality. I know this blog post is a long, philosophical harangue that maybe no one will read—but if you’ve made it this far, I hope you see why I’m so passionate about this project. Decentral Freight isn’t just a name; it’s a mission to eradicate rent-seeking, reclaim our financial autonomy, and rebuild a system that works for us, not against us. If you’re a trucker, a crypto enthusiast, or just someone who believes in a better future, I invite you to join me. Check out the “Early DCF Enthusiasts” NFT drop on OpenSea https://opensea.io/collection/early-dcf-enthusiasts , mint a piece of this movement, and let’s start wrestling back control—one truck, one transaction, one community at a time. Have a great day!
—Matt

PS. If you’re one of those guys who’ve been reluctant to give up cash, and I’m proud of ya, but want to start moving in the direction of DIGITAL freedom for when the time comes that we gotta choose, by all means hit me up. I’ll try and assist as many as possible. The biggest barrier to entry is what the industry calls the “on-ramp”. Finding a cryptocurrency exchange that you trust to link to your bank account. You’re gonna have to do silly stuff like hold up your ID next to your face and smile and snap a selfie, and hand over your credentials you typically only give to a bank or government agency. Why? Because they are regulated just like banks and if they don’t get your KYC, “know your customer” solidified, they get in trouble. After you get that connection established, it’s off to the races and gets fun! So holler on the social media below and we’ll try and get you squared away!

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