Some thoughts around bitcoin. Almost through with Erik Cason's book, and it hit me that the entire work is written from a framework that I don't share.

Erik comes from a generally Christian frame of understanding, where there is good and evil, original sin, a saviour (or messiah), and a single omnipotent god.

What I initially took for anger is more angst, brought about by the need to resolve oneself against that framework, do good, be aligned with the presumptive ethos of the god figure, and hold out hope for a messiah to save oneself from an existence of evil and sin.

So I apologize for that initial observation. But I look at things very differently, although I was raised in a Christian faith. I now see my reality as part of a triune, where there is what I can observe (matter/spacetime), what is unobservable (energy or light), and the intersection between the two (waves, or field energy). Yes, this is somewhat analogous to the Christian triune of god, Jesus, and spirit, but it is not the same. There is no messiah. There is no sin or hell, nothing to be saved from, and no angst involved in comparing oneself to the presumed ethic of a superior.

So my take on the significance of bitcoin is much different. I would say the most important concept of bitcoin might be the nature of ownership, and how bitcoin changed that. The other most significant concept is the network - which aligns nicely with my concept of field energy. Then there is the lack of a physical object, meaning that bitcoin can only be observed in at a point in time, with the complete ledger record at that point. Then - tick tock next block, it changes. The timechain is an entire new perspective on time itself, a very different way of observing time.

So no, I don't see it as messianic. I don't know that it will save us from some evil panopticon (and I'm dead sick of that word). But that is my take, and definitely a different book. I do think it defies the Abrahamic religious traditions, in many ways may change our thinking around what those traditions have been allowed to become - ultimately, fiat.