Bitcoin Is A Jedi Force
Bitcoin Is A Jedi Force THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published April 2023 (DRAFTING) *XX* Minute Read v1.1 “Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.” // Psalms 8:2 The George Lucas’ masterwork, ‘Star Wars’, has captured the imagination of modern […]
Bitcoin Is Digital Sport
Bitcoin Is Digital Sport THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published April 2023 10 Minute Read v1.0 Few patterns manifest as insistently throughout the human story as games. The deeper and wider anthropologists peer into our history, the more variants of play they discover. Mostly peaceful, some violent. Clever and trivial. Intellectual and physical. One versus one, […]
Bitcoin And Spacefarers
Bitcoin And Spacefarers THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published March 2023 5 Minute Read v1.0 From dawning consciousness, humanity has been shrouded night and day by the ominous cloak of space. The darkness as suffocating as silence, yet filled with charming orbs glistening down like far-off Edison bulbs. We, as weary travelers, find their glow to […]
Bitcoin Is Digital Property
Bitcoin Is Digital Property THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published March 2023 5 Minute Read v1.0 “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” // Genesis 3:19 It is not at […]
Bitcoin And Time Preference
Bitcoin And Time Preference THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published March 2023 5 Minute Read v1.0 There’s an old story about two fish. Swimming side by side, one fish says to the other, “The water sure is warm today.” The other fish responds, “What is water?” It’s strange to think of money in this context, but […]
The Bitcoin Worldview
The Bitcoin Worldview THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published February 2023 15 Minute Read v1.1 We all wear glasses. No living person sees the world objectively. Our worldviews simultaneously grant us sight and render us blind. We look through a glass darkly and the fault for this lies in our limited understanding and perspective. The lenses […]
Bitcoin Is Edifying
Bitcoin Is Edifying THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published February 2023 5 Minute Read v1.0 The term “edification” refers to the process of enhancing one’s knowledge, moral character, or overall well-being through experience and instruction. In its broadest sense, edification can encompass a wide range of activities, from formal education to personal development and self-improvement. It […]
Bitcoin Is A Protocol
Bitcoin Is A Protocol THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published February 2023 5 Minute Read v1.0 Our world runs on protocols. Here’s a shortlist… Language. Sports. Speed limits. Stop lights. Medical procedures. Cooking instructions. Codes of conduct. Holiday celebrations. Religious ceremonies and traditions. Common and statutory law. HTTP. TCP/IP. Employee handbooks. Electoral processes. Natural laws of […]
Bitcoin And The Boston Tea Party
Bitcoin And The Boston Tea Party THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published January 2023 5 Minute Read v1.0 The Boston Tea Party was a seminal event in the dawning history of the United States, and is widely considered to be one of the key sparks that led to the American Revolution. The now infamous political protest […]
Bitcoin Is Neutral
Bitcoin Is Neutral THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published January 2023 5 Minute Read v1.0 One of the most profound realizations in Bitcoin is that there is in fact one, global economy. Of course we all know this intuitively due to the fact that we live on a colonized sphere, but in practice we tend to […]
Bitcoin Is An Idea
Bitcoin Is An Idea THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published January 2023 5 Minute Read v1.0 Metaphorical symbolism is everywhere if you know where to look for it. In the case of ideas, contemporary symbolism images them as “lightbulb moments.” The metaphor has implications for how we understand the nature of ideas and their role in […]
Bitcoin Is A Phoenix Rising
Bitcoin Is A Phoenix Rising THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published January 2023 3 Minute Read v1.0 The archetypal Rising of the Phoenix is most potently seen in Christology surrounding the resurrection of the Messiah. Contemporary secular culture familiarizes itself through films such as The Hunger Games and fictitious messianic figures like Superman. The symbolic imagery […]
Bitcoin Is For Everyone
Bitcoin Is For Everyone THE BITCOIN ESSAYS Originally Published January 2023 2 Minute Read v1.1 A friendly admonishment – never mistake size and proportion for quality and complexity. The exhortation came first to me, standing meekly beneath a canopy of blazing celestial embers. We study the stars, but they do not study us. We may […]
