ferenckovacs on Nostr: Maps are not reality. In Hungary, someone renamed the Gulf of Mexico to Lake ...
Maps are not reality. In Hungary, someone renamed the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Balaton—just like that. If a political authority changes the name of a bay, it instantly updates on maps and official documents, but that doesn’t mean the physical world or people’s perception changes with it.
Maps have this kind of abstract power. If they modify their database, the name changes for everyone instantly. The same applies to borders—if a digital map redraws a national boundary, it doesn’t mean the real-world borders have changed.
Bitcoin, on the other hand, works differently. A bitcoin is not just an abstraction; it is real. It represents actual energy that was invested in its creation and transfer. This physical foundation makes it fundamentally different from simple digital databases.
Satoshi Nakamoto was the first to solve the problem of truly transferable digital assets. In the physical world, if I give you an apple, I no longer have it—you received it, and I lost it. But knowledge works differently. If I know where a treasure is and I tell you, I still retain that knowledge.
Bitcoin solves this problem. It connects the digital world to physical reality by making bitcoin truly transferable and irreversible, just like a physical object. That’s why it can function as money.
Bitcoin doesn’t create a balance between the digital and physical worlds—it builds a bridge between them.
Maps have this kind of abstract power. If they modify their database, the name changes for everyone instantly. The same applies to borders—if a digital map redraws a national boundary, it doesn’t mean the real-world borders have changed.
Bitcoin, on the other hand, works differently. A bitcoin is not just an abstraction; it is real. It represents actual energy that was invested in its creation and transfer. This physical foundation makes it fundamentally different from simple digital databases.
Satoshi Nakamoto was the first to solve the problem of truly transferable digital assets. In the physical world, if I give you an apple, I no longer have it—you received it, and I lost it. But knowledge works differently. If I know where a treasure is and I tell you, I still retain that knowledge.
Bitcoin solves this problem. It connects the digital world to physical reality by making bitcoin truly transferable and irreversible, just like a physical object. That’s why it can function as money.
Bitcoin doesn’t create a balance between the digital and physical worlds—it builds a bridge between them.