Sapiens is an amazing book. If you read between the lines it can definitely help explain some principals in bitcoin. as a collective, humans have evolved to be great at sharing in collective myths that we all hold to be true.

For example, right now, we all believe that a piece of green paper with an old lady’s face on it is money - but what’s to stop us in the future from collectively believing that an ‘imaginary’ ledger hosted on the internet can’t be money?