Money Is a Story—#Bitcoin Just Tells It Better. I think nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs disagrees with this… he said something about Bitcoin being our truth on nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u podcast. Was in the context of Sapiens author, Yuval Harari. He seems to get so much hate in the Bitcoin community, but I think Sapiens was one of the best books I ever read. Back to story below… would love to hear opposing thoughts on this.

Humans are the only animals that create and believe in shared stories. A lion doesn’t stop chasing a gazelle because it crossed an invisible border. A chimpanzee won’t trade bananas for shiny metal based on a government’s decree. But we do. Nations, laws, corporations, and—most importantly—money, all exist because enough people believe in them.

Money, at its core, is a collective illusion. A dollar bill has no intrinsic value. Gold is just a shiny rock. The only reason they function as money is that we all agree they do, and because certain characteristics give the story of money better properties. The money story has evolved over time—from shells to metal coins, from paper to digital bank entries. Each iteration has relied on trust: in rulers, in institutions, in central banks.

Bitcoin, however, tells a different story. It doesn’t ask for trust in any ruler or institution. Instead, it’s backed by math, physics, and decentralized consensus. If money is, by definition, a story, then Bitcoin must be one too. The difference? It’s a story without a storyteller. A monetary system that exists not because of belief in a central authority, but because the rules are enforced by code, cryptography, and open-source verification.

In a world where stories shape reality, Bitcoin may be the strongest monetary story ever told—because it doesn’t rely on human trust to keep it alive. It just is.