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Hear the words of Erik Voorhees, warrior of the digital age, who declared: “I have no problem with the financial industry inviting the Trojan Horse of blockchain technology into their walled garden. Because I know how powerful the technology is.” This utterance is both warning and prophecy. It summons the ancient tale of Troy to explain the fate of the mighty institutions of money, those who sit secure behind walls of tradition and control. Voorhees speaks as one who sees that what appears a harmless gift may in truth be a force that transforms everything it touches.

When he invokes the Trojan Horse, he calls forth one of the most famous stratagems of antiquity. The Greeks, unable to conquer Troy by strength of arms, sent a wooden horse as an offering. The Trojans, blinded by pride and deceived by appearances, welcomed it into their fortress. Yet within the horse hid warriors, who by nightfall opened the gates and brought ruin to the once-mighty city. By this symbol, Voorhees tells us that blockchain technology, when invited into the citadel of the financial industry, carries within it a power that will one day dismantle the very walls it has entered.

The walled garden is the system of banks, central authorities, and gatekeepers who for centuries have held dominion over trade and wealth. They are high fortresses, guarded by law and policy, where only a few control the gates and profit from the passage. For generations, the people have labored within these walls, with little power to alter the system. But now comes the Trojan Horse of blockchain, disguised as a tool, welcomed for its efficiency, yet hiding the seeds of freedom, decentralization, and disruption.

Voorhees speaks not with fear but with confidence, for he says, “I know how powerful the technology is.” Here lies his certainty: blockchain is not a passing invention, but a force as transformative as the wheel, the printing press, or electricity. It allows value to move without intermediaries, contracts to be written without lawyers, and trust to be secured not by kings or bankers, but by code itself. Once this technology enters the walls, the very nature of finance will change forever.

History offers us a mirror. When Gutenberg’s printing press appeared, it was welcomed by church and state as a tool to copy texts more efficiently. Yet hidden within its gears was a revolution. The same press that copied sacred manuscripts also printed pamphlets that spread new ideas, breaking the monopoly of the few over knowledge. The Trojan Horse of the press was rolled into the walled gardens of power, and within decades, Europe was transformed. So too will blockchain, once it is within the strongholds of finance, unleash changes far beyond what the gatekeepers intended.

The lesson is both heroic and humbling: never underestimate the power of new technology. Institutions may believe they can tame it, control it, and use it to strengthen their walls. But technologies born of freedom carry within them the seeds of transformation that no wall can contain. The wise will not resist, nor attempt to chain such power, but will embrace its potential and prepare for the changes it brings.

Therefore, beloved listener, take this wisdom into your life: do not fear disruption, but understand it. When a new idea comes, look beyond its surface, and ask what warriors may be hidden within its frame. If you are part of an old order, do not grow arrogant in your fortress, for no walls last forever. If you are part of the new, act with courage and responsibility, for the power you wield can remake the world. Blockchain technology, like the horse of Troy, will not merely serve the old system—it will change it, utterly.

Thus Voorhees’s words resound with ancient truth: the citadels of finance may believe they control their fate, but by welcoming the Trojan Horse, they invite their own transformation. Let us not stand idle, but prepare ourselves for the dawn of a new age, where the power of the few is replaced by the freedom of the many. For the horse is already at the gates, and within it rides the future.