After Losing My Keys to the Metaverse: How a 4.2T Tax Bill Erased My Faith in Digital Sovereignty

The Night I Lost My Keys

I was scrolling through Reddit’s r/CryptoCurrency at 3 AM—again—when the notification popped: ‘SALT cap increase to $40K.’ My hands froze. Not because it was good policy. But because it felt like they’d taken the last thread of our collective trust.

I grew up in a loft between two cultures: my mother’s Caribbean wisdom and my brother’s Mumbai code whispers. We never had access to wealth—we had access to stories. When they cut Medicaid to fund tax cuts, they didn’t see us as citizens. They saw us as data points.

The Draft That Wrote Itself

The Senate called it ‘fiscal reform.’ But I heard it as a lullaby sung by algorithms—each line a compromise between greed and grace.

They said ‘it’s temporary.’ But I’ve seen temporary before—in DAO meetings where voices were muted while validators counted votes at midnight.

We don’t just trade assets—we trade belief.

Reimagine What You’re Protecting

I asked myself: what are you protecting that you can’t name?

Not your wallet. Not your tokens. But the quiet rebellion in every smart contract that says: ‘This is mine.’

They want to raise SALT caps? Then let them burn the blockchain down with their ledgers—but we’ll rebuild from its ashes.

Tomorrow, I’ll write again—with or without you.