The fact that even Satoshi struggled to explain what Bitcoin is just shows how alien of an idea it is
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At times I think Hal was Satoshi but then I hear the term 'bloody hard' and I just don't think that's terminology common in America. Perhaps I'm wrong on that.
No I totally agree. If it was Hal this language would be used to intentionally obfuscate since no Americans use that phrase. I don’t think most humans have that level of awareness in real time but then again I wouldn’t put it past a person who claimed to be Japanese either. The longer time I spend in bitcoin the less I think Hal was Satoshi 🤷🏻‍♀️
I’ve thought about this a lot. How can one explain bitcoin in a way that’s digestible to an average person? You can’t. People way smarter than me have tried and failed.
Deep down it’s because you have to internalize how batshit insane of an idea the difficulty adjustment is. On the surface level, someone might be able to understand solving double spend and why that’s important. But that doesn’t get to the root of why it’s so profound.
You have to get to a point where you can see bitcoin as a military grade self regulating mechanism that doesn’t use time or have one central “brain”. And thats where you start sounding like a crazy person… because as Satoshi stated, there is nothing to relate this to.