Released early 2026
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2140 - Quantum
The Rise of Bitcoin Citadels Chronicles - Book 3
By Michael McGilbourne
Coming in (2026) Page count: ?
Science-Fiction, Cyberpunks, Dystopian, Metaphysical & Visionary
Format: Coming Soon
Description: 2140 — The Rise of Bitcoin Citadels Chronicles - Quantum
Whether you know everything about Bitcoin or nothing at all, this series is for you! After reading Books 1 and 2, here is Book 3, plunging deeper into quantum consciousness and civilization's greatest crossroads. Rio Verde Observatory, 2066. October 12th. Dawn breaks over the Amazon as Dr. Renata Vega stares at readings that make her blood run cold: "It's over. We've achieved complete cryptographic supremacy over Bitcoin's SHA-256." The same quantum breakthrough that made their nomadic mining revolutionary has given them the weapon to destroy everything they've built. Fifty-seven years of Bitcoin evolution. 2,354 thriving consciousness communities. Three million people living in mathematical freedom. All of it vulnerable to the quantum computers her research created. "The nodes are still running," she notes with bitter irony. "But security theater doesn't matter when everyone knows the illusion has been shattered." Markets collapse 84%. Enclaves fragment as residents lose faith. The Integration Board offers "safe harbor" migration to quantum-secured CBDCs. The revolution that promised to separate money from state faces extinction through technological obsolescence. This is where Book 3 begins—spanning 2055-2084, chronicling humanity's Quantum evolution. Can consciousness-raised children solve what their parents' expertise cannot? Will Aria and Luna's fourth-dimensional awareness save Bitcoin from quantum doom? How does a small nation transform from gang-controlled territory into humanity's first Bitcoin Republic? What happens when time itself becomes navigable—when 107-year-olds achieve temporal sovereignty and aging becomes a choice? When the network evolves beyond cryptography into universal truth verification? When lies become mathematically impossible and civilization built on deception collapses? The quantum threshold has arrived. But will Bitcoin transcend mathematics entirely, or will superior technology prove that decentralization was always a temporary dream? The answer lies beyond dimensions we can see.
About The Author
Michael McGilbourne's life mirrors the monetary evolution he chronicles in 2140 - The Rise of Bitcoin Citadels. His journey from London's financial district to writing this book as a traveling digital nomad embodies the very transformation he envisions. Starting as an intern at a London stock broker, Michael progressed to become a financial advisor in the USA and later worked in foreign exchange risk insurance, where he witnessed firsthand the institutional machinery that maintains fiat monetary hegemony. His experience in traditional finance and risk assessment gave him unique insight into the systemic vulnerabilities that Bitcoin's mathematical certainty addresses." Leaving traditional finance behind, Michael established yoga studios and an off-grid retreat center in the French Alps, learning to create harmony between human needs and natural systems. Like the Rio Verde facility in his novel, this experience proved that technology and nature need not be adversaries. For the past several years, Michael has embraced Bitcoin's borderless promise, traveling the world as a digital nomad with his wife and three daughters. This family journey across continents embodies the geographic freedom that Bitcoin enables. 2140 - The Rise of Bitcoin Citadels was written entirely on the road, composed in cafés from Lisbon to Bali, mountain retreats from Munnar, India to the South African bush, and during flights between continents. His daughters, aged 10, 14, and 16, serve as his generational compass, naturally grasping concepts that older minds struggle to understand. Inspired by The Bitcoin Standard and countless encounters during his travels, from witnessing hyperinflation in Turkey to observing remittance flows in Southeast Asia, Michael bridges the gap between Bitcoin's technical community and the broader public seeking to understand what this technology means for humanity's future. He believes we are living through the opening chapters of the story he's written, and that the best way to understand the future is to participate in creating it. 2140 - The Rise of Bitcoin Citadels: Genesis is the first book in a planned multi-volume series exploring Bitcoin's evolution through 2140 and beyond.
