I fully empathise with Satoshi's remarks about the difficulty in coming up with a description for Bitcoin.

I've had my fair share of terrible takes on it , but the more humility I inculcated into my analysis of Bitcoin, the better my understanding of it became.

While considering it as a store of value, I had to put on the hat of a student of finance and consider Bitcoin vis-a-vis Gold, Silver, Stocks, Bonds, Real estate etc and understand its properties in relation to them.

If I wanted to look at it as a currency, I had to become a student of monetary history and and consider Bitcoin vis-a-vis the Dollar, Rupee, Euro, Yen and other historic currencies like monetary metals, rai stones, beads.

As a payments network, I had to understand Fedwire, Swift, UPI, NEFT, RTGS, Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, etc. and how Bitcoin can be compared to each of them. It's important that one understands Lightning in this context.

To understand how it's governed, I had to go back to my uni days as a computer science student and look at protocols like TCP/IP, SMTP, HTTP and programming languages like Python, C, C++ to understand how they are maintained and upgraded.

There are many more interpretations of Bitcoin:

•Conservatives consider it as a tool to force fiscal discipline on Government.

•Libertarians and Austrian economists consider it as a path towards reducing Government intervention into the economy and society.

•Cypherpunks consider it as a tool to ensure financial privacy.

•Pacifists believe it can end wars because it keeps Government finances in check.

It will take many more years of research and reading for me to grasp Bitcoin, leave alone writing thoughtfully about it. The call to adventure is strong with this one.