Learning about Bitcoin taught me about the fundamental resources of civilization. Until Bitcoin, we have never had a firm foundation for our monetary system. Gold was a physical representation of capital for thousands of years, but it cannot move at the speed of light, so it will not work for the civilization we are building.

The biggest change for me was the realization that the US Dollar is not money. With the loss of purchasing power that goes far beyond the simple measurement of inflation, seeing the value of the US Dollar fall over time suddenly made sense. And that made me realize that our entire global civilization is on the edge of a cliff slowly sliding in to the abyss, with Bitcoin (and now Nostr) being the only lifelines that can anchor us and hold us steady during the coming storm.

But we can't be complacent. We can't expect just holding this resource to do anything, we still have to prove our worth by Proof of Work. We have to expand our networks, embrace our differences and focus on building a new civilization on top of the new foundations that we have available. Bitcoin is Capital, the best representation of capital that humanity has so far invented. Nostr and the other decentralized information sharing services are the most secure storage and sharing mechanism for data that we have available to us, and we need to do as much as possible to take advantage of this opportunity. We need to take our inspiration from the periods of the past when our resource base changed, and build beyond our limits.