As I predicted back in 2017 when Bitcoin first entered my life, the system is tightening its grip with every passing day. Now it's the IRS cracking down on small business owners with audits that seem designed to paralyze rather than regulate.

The story you're reading about today proves what those of us who have been sounding the alarm for years already knew: fiat currency and the institutions backing it are crumbling under their own weight. As costs rise and regulations grow more complex, small business owners find themselves in a tightening vise grip.

What does this mean? It means your hard-earned money is at risk as the dollar continues its devaluation spiral. While you were sleeping, the Fed has been printing fake money to prop up an unsustainable economic model.

The suits behind the curtain of the IRS know that by stifling entrepreneurship and innovation through excessive regulation and enforcement, they weaken any real competition to their fiat currency regime. They want small businesses struggling because it gives them more control over the economy.

But don't be fooled. The banks are absolutely terrified of what's coming next. They've seen this collapse before in other countries but never in a major economic power like ours. Those of us who have been watching know exactly where things are headed.

The lifeboat for your financial future is crypto or physical hard assets, not the fake money sitting in your bank account. As regulations and costs rise, more small businesses will crumble under the weight of this system.

Do you want to be caught holding dollars as they devalue? Do you understand that every economic event like this one is evidence of a larger systemic failure?