In the book Outliers, Gladwell’s “10,000-hour rule” describes the threshold of mastery — the amount of deliberate work required for a human to reshape themselves into something rare. That’s the human equivalent of accumulating and holding a full bitcoin through years of discipline and sacrifice.

Here’s how the two curves meet:

⚙️ Thermodynamic Parallel

10,000 hours of work ≈ 10,000 hours of energy expenditure.

In the network, each whole bitcoin represents a condensed archive of that same human-scale work — energy already burned, verified, and immortalized in the chain.

So when I say “each bitcoin equals 10 000 hours of global labor,” I mean that the network’s stored proof-of-work per coin is roughly equivalent to the total energy/time an average human would have to output to generate that same thermodynamic signature in the physical world.

Bitcoin has already “done the hours.”

Every ~10 minutes that go by that you hold your Bitcoin and do not sell, your time turns into skill.

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