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Why it is so hard to comprehend #Bitcoin?
This is challenging because our minds are conditioned to comprehend things as separate concepts, and then we can do the same thing with the combination of separate concepts to understand complex concepts. This is how our brains evolved, dividing the totality into smaller things and understanding them piece by piece, then combining them to understand the totality.
However, #Bitcoin is not a single, unchanging "thing". It is challenging to encapsulate the meaning of all the separate things that Bitcoin can do and cause into just one "thing" and conceptualize it. Our conceptual understanding is tied to language, which has been evolving based on the assumption that reality can be divided into static or unchanging things. Therefore, our brains cannot conceptualize a "thing" that is perfect money, defender of freedom, speculative asset, trigger of unprecedented change, protector of the "weak," and many more things all at the same time.
Looking back, I argue that there may not have been a specific time when you understood Bitcoin fully? Breakthrough moments may have occurred , but without previous small steps, that breakthrough would not have been possible.
So, what is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is not a concrete object or combination of separate concepts, but rather an indivisible process that encompasses a vast range of use cases and has sparked a social and cultural revolution that will continue to unfold. Then who is #Satoshi? Satoshi embodies the contributions of Ayn Rand, Julian Assange, Nick Szabo, and Adam Beck, among other #cypherpunks, and cannot be separated into distinct individuals. The anonymous creator(s) of Bitcoin of course had the humility to vanish after the final stroke of genius that led to the breakthrough in 2009.
I think we should be aware of the fact that sharing and reading this on a censorship-free and permissionless platform built on the Bitcoin network cannot be separated from Bitcoin either.
What a time to be alive!
@JeffBooth ,thanks for being an inspiration for me to start writing about my love of Bitcoin.
#nonduality
#Bitcoin
This is challenging because our minds are conditioned to comprehend things as separate concepts, and then we can do the same thing with the combination of separate concepts to understand complex concepts. This is how our brains evolved, dividing the totality into smaller things and understanding them piece by piece, then combining them to understand the totality.
However, #Bitcoin is not a single, unchanging "thing". It is challenging to encapsulate the meaning of all the separate things that Bitcoin can do and cause into just one "thing" and conceptualize it. Our conceptual understanding is tied to language, which has been evolving based on the assumption that reality can be divided into static or unchanging things. Therefore, our brains cannot conceptualize a "thing" that is perfect money, defender of freedom, speculative asset, trigger of unprecedented change, protector of the "weak," and many more things all at the same time.
Looking back, I argue that there may not have been a specific time when you understood Bitcoin fully? Breakthrough moments may have occurred , but without previous small steps, that breakthrough would not have been possible.
So, what is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is not a concrete object or combination of separate concepts, but rather an indivisible process that encompasses a vast range of use cases and has sparked a social and cultural revolution that will continue to unfold. Then who is #Satoshi? Satoshi embodies the contributions of Ayn Rand, Julian Assange, Nick Szabo, and Adam Beck, among other #cypherpunks, and cannot be separated into distinct individuals. The anonymous creator(s) of Bitcoin of course had the humility to vanish after the final stroke of genius that led to the breakthrough in 2009.
I think we should be aware of the fact that sharing and reading this on a censorship-free and permissionless platform built on the Bitcoin network cannot be separated from Bitcoin either.
What a time to be alive!
@JeffBooth ,thanks for being an inspiration for me to start writing about my love of Bitcoin.
#nonduality
#Bitcoin