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Being too early is just as deadly as being too late.

[Thomas Edison's concrete houses](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Portland_Cement_Company), any startup with a novel product society isn't ready for yet, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", etc.

What if Bitcoin - in this accumulation stage - is the first viable backstop to that problem? If an early innovator holds enough bitcoin and the price appreciates just more than their overhead, they can stay "disastrously early" for however long it takes to flip over into "just in time!". And society reaps the rewards of an invention it may never have seen or seen much later.

Bitcoin appears to be providing this service _to itself_ as well. That's combinaton is a goddamn civilization hack right there....

If this is true, we're playing with an **innovation tractor beam that drags the future towards the present unlike anything else** we've ever seen.

liminal 🦠 10mo ago

What is the "game theory" that cells play to become an organism?

We don't know much about the specific rules of that game, but we know something for sure, and we can show the most important part of that game when we ask one question:

What would happen if they chose to stop playing this cooperative game?

From that question, we can ask another question:

What are the conditions that will make individuals play such a similar cooperative game at their own choice?

One thing's for sure, fiat is not such a game for those conditions. Even by definition, you know "fiat" is not it.

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