By fixing the money using proof-of-work, #Bitcoin realigns human pecking order heuristics with those which are observed surviving in nature.

Ever since humans invented written language and began codifying abstract power hierarchies, our pecking order heuristics have become dysfunctional.

Animals in nature settle their disputes using physical power and they do so as a first resort.

This is what Bitcoin does for humans, it allows us to use physical power as a first resort for dispute resolution and pecking order, bypassing dysfunctional courts, rule of law, and other dysfunctional forms of abstract power, instead relying on physics and probabilistic physical power competition.

Once you understand this, you understand Bitcoin from a first principles perspective and have reached the bottom of the rabbit hole.