#Bitcoin is not a new game, it's the same primordial game life has been playing for 4 billion years.

Find increasingly clever ways to raise your cost of attack, which lowers your benefit-to-cost ratio of attack, which grants you more prosperity margin, which then allows you to grow your resource abundance.

It's a fundamental equation of life since abiogenesis and Bitcoin is the latest clever way life has found to affect this equation and allow life to increase its capacity to create ever more complex structure with the superordinate goal of countervailing the entropic stress of the universe.