People struggle to understand Bitcoin for the same reason they struggle to understand mycelium—true decentralization defies conventional thinking.

“Mycelium coordination is difficult to understand because there is no center of control . . . Fungi are decentralized organisms. There is no operational centers, no capital cities, no seats of government. Control is dispersed: mycelial coordination takes place both everywhere at once and nowhere in particular. A fragment of mycelium can regenerate an entire network, meaning that a singular single mycelial individual is potentially immortal.”

- Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life