FuriousHoneyBadger on Nostr: After contemplating and studying Bitcoin for several years, I am beginning to view it ...
After contemplating and studying Bitcoin for several years, I am beginning to view it not merely as a financial asset, but as a natural phenomenon, a form of digital life.
A traditional organic life form (whether a mammal, microbe, virus, or plant) is born, grows, develops, and eventually dies.
In the case of Bitcoin, it had a clear birth with the Genesis block. It has since developed, improved, and adapted to its environment with every code modification. It has grown in terms of wallet addresses, node count, and hashrate. And for the moment, it refuses to die, maybe it is inmortal.
This is one of the key factors that makes me realize Bitcoin is fundamentally different from other financial assets:
Bitcoin acts in such a way that it seeks to avoid extinction, it is built into its design, much like an animal species that strives for self-preservation over time.
Bitcoin incentivizes bitcoiners (a part of Bitcoin) or improves their lives in some way to keep itself alive. The "Selfish Gene" theory applies to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is like an animal species composed of a single individual, a solitary unit that stays alive without the need to reproduce, constantly growing, developing, and adapting to the surrounding environment of the moment.
Published at
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