** BITCOIN STORYTELLING **
Bitcoin Maxis assume that because they understand Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, Fedimint, SeedQRs, multisig vaults, etc.—everyone else is either already on board or just a few podcasts away from total understanding.
WRONG!
Most people don’t even understand Bitcoin as money yet. Or, even as a store of value, even digital gold.
Adjacent tech like Nostr becomes a mirror—reflecting the developer culture, not mass culture. But we haven't even won people on the basics. It's number go up to most people who have bought.
Said another way, Bitcoin related technology is "nice" and "useful" but it doesn't capture hearts and minds.
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Bitcoin Culture Is Still Stuck in the “Technophile” Phase
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Think of where the internet was in the 1990s: usenet groups, IRC chat, sysadmins debating RFCs. Brilliant, but inaccessible.
That’s where we are with Bitcoin and Nostr right now. Bitcoin feels like a hacker’s game. Still. And normal people don’t want to play.
The older the person the greater their resistance. Sure, this is very much related to "Why The Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin" but also Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" - that is, change is slow because old folks have to die and be replaced with true believers.
It doesn't have to be this slow (and painful).
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What Cuts Through This?
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Storytelling.
Fiction.
Myth.
Why?
Because story makes tech human. Story bridges the gap between logic and emotion, systems and soul.
If Bitcoin is the most important invention since the internet (it is), then the stories about it must match its importance—or it will never reach its full potential.
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Proof from History: Tech Took Off When Fiction Lit the Fire
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The Moon Landing was powered not just by rockets but by Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (way back in 1865). Decades before NASA, fiction gave us the dream.
The Internet wasn’t explained to the world by whitepapers. It was brought to life in movies (Hackers, The Net, Matrix) and books (Neuromancer, Snow Crash); all fiction.
AI, once abstract, became very personal because of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ex Machina, Her, and Terminator. That’s when people felt it.
Star Trek’s communicator became the flip phone. Its "PADD" (I know, I know) became the iPad. The vision preceded the invention.
Technology follows narrative.
Not the other way around.
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Why Bitcoin Needs Fiction (Now More Than Ever)
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Bitcoin is the most important political, economic, and philosophical idea of our time. But it’s dressed up in technical jargon and libertarian memes.
(The very fact you're likely seeing this on Nostr is proof positive.)
We need to translate freedom into feeling.
That’s what stories do best. Fiction, baby!
Normies won’t adopt Bitcoin because of taproot or ordinal indexes or mempools. No sir! They will adopt it when:
* A father saves his family with sats.
* A girl uncovers a global surveillance plot and escapes through the Lightning Network.
* A grieving son unlocks a message from his dead parent stored on the blockchain.
* An AI learns empathy from Bitcoin’s incorruptible timechain.
I could play the "Bitcoin Fiction Game" all day. And you? I suspect the stories you have are related to your personal journal. Your anchor is your life. Imagine some fiction, some storytelling, to give you a radically better vision of Bitcoin and what the future could provide.
Fiction is not marketing. Fiction allows for myth-making.
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Books > Marketing
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Marketing says: “Buy now.” (Sure, I'm guilty of that.)
Fiction says: “Feel this.” (Yes, also guilty of this!)
Fiction lasts.
It echoes.
It seeps in.
Bitcoin doesn’t need influencers or slogans.
It needs sagas, symbols, and souls.
It needs:
Novels like CH405 51GN4L. (That's my shameless plug.)
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Final Thoughts
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Bitcoin is the killer app.
Fiction is the killer adoption layer.
Again... change the world with STORYTELLING.
And, by supporting those creating Bitcoin art.
Thanks for reading.