THE CUSIP CODE: YOUR NAME AS A SECURITY Every tradeable asset has a CUSIP number. Stocks, bonds, Treasury notes, and yes, birth certificates. Behind the scenes, your certificate was given a CUSIP identifier and turned into a financial instrument. That security allows it to be tracked and traded on global markets. You became a bond in the truest sense, your future earnings and taxes estimated, collateralized (JOHN SMITH), and used to back the national debt.
I’ve got to wonder how much of a connection there is to NFTs - certainly, Sovereign Citizen scams like this (the so-called “Strawman Theory”) and cryptocurrency both are products of wingnut Libertarian conspiracy culture popularised by the financial crisis of 2008.