You canโt invent gravity, you discover it.
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Yes! Invention implies creating something entirely new from nothing. Discovery implies uncovering something that already existed in potential. ๐งก
Bitcoin was invented. Bitcoin is merely an idea and network that solves problems. A product.
Maybe you need to learn more about it. Satoshi discovered how to solve an unsolved pending matter. They simply uncovered the combination that worked.
That's the stupidest, philosophical shit I have ever heard. Imthis is the kind of crap that keeps normies away. Way too cult like.
Bro or bros wrote code based off past projects and adapted/wrote new code to make the protocol. It isn't oil, it isn't the globe, it's code. Amazing ideas and code, absolutely. Discovered? ๐
In your sense, the IC engine wasn't invented, they just figured out the right combination of things to make it work.
The wheel and axle wasn't invented, they just unlocked them discovered the proper radius and spindle connections.
Youโre mistaking code for value. The code didnโt create scarcity proof-of-work did. That breakthrough wasnโt just coding, it was the discovery of how to achieve trustless digital property. You can fork the code, but not the discovery.
Proof of work was an idea, it is also in Bitcoin 's code, made up via code.
Make no mistake, Bitcoin has value because we agree it does. NOT because some guy or company spent energy mining it and securing it. Proof of work/mining help people feel good about using it. A more sound money helps people believe in it, and give it value. Nothing more.
Henry Ford suggested this a century ago. Using electricity markets and cost for a new monetary value system. It was around in other times as well. It isn't Bitcoin which created it or the idea.
You canโt agree digital scarcity into existence. You prove it. Ford and others tried in vain. Thatโs the discovery.
Of course you can.
This note, signed by my private key is 100% digitally scarce. That doesn't give it value.
Or better yet, the very first note. It was digitally scarce. No value.
Now, perhaps you, me and others here agree that nostr is better than X because of this ability to have digitally scarce social media postings. It now has value.
It has value because we all agree it has value.
An influencer on X however may not agree that it is valuable to have such a thing.
Bitcoin is closer to the discovery of fire or gold: a fundamental shift in human capability, not just a clever tool.
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โฆand the penalty for violating the law of gravity is death, whether or not you have discovered it.
I love that.
Have there been any hard forks on gravity?
You can fork the code, but not the discovery.
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