Bitcoin the currency is singular, Bitcoin the network looks like a mycelial network.

If you include LN, it's various implementations, and other L-2 & L-3s you have a dynamic collective of different agents unlocking the potential of Bitcoin the network.

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Mushrooms definitely communicate with each other using the same mycelial/hyphae networks too.

They definitely share a common highway in a sense - I'd be shocked if there was any evidence to the contrary.

For one fungal species information can definitely be shared within a network. Between species the nature of communication gets more complicated, especially given that different species can be at cross purposes. For example within a soil we may have some fungi working collaboratively with trees (mutualists) and others trying to attack roots (pathogens). Or two mutualists can be competing for space with each other on a root! It’s a whole complex world in the soil, and we are only beginning to understand what fungi can do, and how they can interact and communicate. But the array of potential signals - collaborative and competitive- out there is super interesting. Probably digressing but I do love fungi.

Do you forage?

We saw Fantastic Fungi in the theater when it came out in 2019 and I remember being blown away by it. After the movie, I commented to nostr:npub17meshv2lg6rfyuwzgh349yslllq7aathd55xu0jgjns2ayz6rt2seplm8u how much the visualization of the mycelial network reminded me of bitcoin, and this was two years before I started using Lightning and saw the same thing again in the graph of the early Plebnet. Patterns in nature are based in mathematics, after all.