My name is Todd Pitner, founder of my575e.com, a site dedicated to helping people keep more of what they earn, and cohost of Decentralize.TV with Mike Adams — a show about decentralized living and escaping centralized control.
Before cohosting Decentralize.TV, I spent several years learning everything I could about privacy coins and sharing my discoveries on my YouTube channel.
After a year of due diligence, I was drawn to Epic Cash, which became and remains my favorite privacy coin. For three years I published an Epic Cash video every Friday to an audience that mostly already agreed with me. Many of those episodes I have since taken down, which is why the archive is thinner than the effort was.
That is the problem with video. The people who find it are looking for it. Someone who has never heard of Epic Cash will not type its name into YouTube, which means the argument never reaches the only person who needs it: someone who suspects their money is not entirely theirs, and has not yet been given a way to check.
A book can be handed to that person. A video cannot. So this is not the videos turned into prose. It is the argument I could never make ten minutes or an hour at a time — the whole case, with the working shown, in an order that lets a skeptic verify each step before the next one is asked of them.
What I have tried to do is not persuade you that I am right. It is to give you a test sharp enough to settle the question without me. If you finish this book and conclude that I am wrong, you will have concluded it from evidence you can check, which is more than most writing in this category offers.
Two disclosures, because they matter. I hold EPIC, and I have for years. Assume that colors everything in this book, then check the work anyway.
Every number here is either arithmetic, visible on a public chain, or attributed to a named source with a date. If the argument only works because you trust me, it does not work.
I have also been wrong about the timing. Repeatedly. I thought the world would notice sooner than it did, and I said so in public more than once. The design has held up better than my forecasts, which is the most honest way I can describe the last seven years.
That is the whole of my case for writing this: not that I was right about when, but that the thing I was pointing at is still standing, still small, and still checkable.
Which is why the book exists now rather than five years ago: the question stopped being theoretical. Bank failures that look routine, stablecoin balances frozen by an administrative decision, and a surveillance apparatus that has grown faster than any coin's privacy.
The rest of the book is the checking — and everything in it, the sources, the audio, and the corrections as they come in, lives at quietprivatemoney.com.
Cheers, Todd Pitner