#Bitcoin is the #mycelium of money, and not just how nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl put it 
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nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx show this to your wife 😂
Yikes! How very…manly? Why is everything a big muscle arm? I don’t understand.
They’re two of the strongest things in the world? 💪
I do think there are *some* parallels in the mycelium/bitcoin comparison but there are also some big differences. For example, the soil ecosystem is very biodiverse, with different species of fungi playing distinct but complementary ecological roles. I’m not sure I would say the same is true for the digital currency “ecosystem.” There’s bitcoin and then…everything else.
Would be awesome to hear you on #PlebchainRadio talk to nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl about mycology and #bitcoin!
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Did you ever watch The Last of Us?
While everyone else was complaining about the blatantly inaccurate geography in the third episode, nostr:npub17meshv2lg6rfyuwzgh349yslllq7aathd55xu0jgjns2ayz6rt2seplm8u was yelling at the TV about the inaccurate science in the opening sequence.
“That’s a slime mold, not a fungus! They’re not even in the same phylum!” 😂🍄🧟♂️
Thus is true. Slime molds are not fungi! Not in the same kingdom. But they are very photogenic. And interesting in their own right.
slime mold is a miracle. theorically can use it to terraform new planets
I’ll let my wife know how important they are when she nags at me to bleach the shower.
Dude, once we found actual mushrooms growing on a piece of rotting wood along the bottom of our sink cabinet next to the shower. I was horrified. She was fascinated. That’s life living with a mycologist for you.
I found it very interesting then wanted immediately to bleach the heck out if it. It’s a both/and.
We are the soil!! Shitcoins are the unhelpful weeds! 
Couldn’t one argue that people/societies are playing the ecological roles? All we are is dust in the wind
When I talk about ecological roles, I mean all of these fungi in soil are doing different things. There are decomposers (and different kinds of those!), fungi that form mutually beneficial associations with plants, pathogens… just lots of different kinds of fungi doing lots of different things, all of which keep the ecosystem running basically. I’m not sure I see that in types of digital currency. But I could imagine different people doing many different things (functions, if you will) with bitcoin.
Bitcoin the currency is singular, Bitcoin the network looks like a mycelial network.
If you include LN, it's various implementations, and other L-2 & L-3s you have a dynamic collective of different agents unlocking the potential of Bitcoin the network.
Mushrooms definitely communicate with each other using the same mycelial/hyphae networks too.
They definitely share a common highway in a sense - I'd be shocked if there was any evidence to the contrary.
For one fungal species information can definitely be shared within a network. Between species the nature of communication gets more complicated, especially given that different species can be at cross purposes. For example within a soil we may have some fungi working collaboratively with trees (mutualists) and others trying to attack roots (pathogens). Or two mutualists can be competing for space with each other on a root! It’s a whole complex world in the soil, and we are only beginning to understand what fungi can do, and how they can interact and communicate. But the array of potential signals - collaborative and competitive- out there is super interesting. Probably digressing but I do love fungi.
Do you forage?
We saw Fantastic Fungi in the theater when it came out in 2019 and I remember being blown away by it. After the movie, I commented to nostr:npub17meshv2lg6rfyuwzgh349yslllq7aathd55xu0jgjns2ayz6rt2seplm8u how much the visualization of the mycelial network reminded me of bitcoin, and this was two years before I started using Lightning and saw the same thing again in the graph of the early Plebnet. Patterns in nature are based in mathematics, after all.
