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Sixteen years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin white paper, sparking a quiet revolution. For early adopters like Hal Finney and a few pioneers, Bitcoin’s potential was clear from the start. They defied what Amara’s Law warns about—that we tend to overestimate short-term impact while underestimating long-term transformation. These early adopters saw Bitcoin as a digital currency that could shift the flow of value beyond traditional finance, even as most of us took years to catch on.
Even today, as Bitcoin gains broader attention, we’re likely still underestimating what it can achieve over the long term. For those exploring #bitcoin now, remember—you’re still early! The next few decades will embed Bitcoin even deeper into the fabric of society, just as those early believers imagined.
So, here’s to those who saw Bitcoin’s potential from the start, to those just beginning to understand what’s possible, and to the 16th anniversary of the White Paper that started it all.
Proof-of-work is what sets Bitcoin apart from other digital currencies—it requires real-world energy to secure the network, grounding this digital asset in the physical world.
Unveiled at the nostr:npub1ft69mv46akgwumcxn873948ht0jvhh89c2z95pptfhqyf26g4wnqkatx3v in Lugano this weekend, a new statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s creator, embodies this concept in a striking way. From certain angles, the statue appears to disappear—a reminder of the power and subtlety of Bitcoin’s digital-to-physical connection.
At Bitcoin Works in Edinburgh, we’re building a space inspired by this vision—a place where digital ideas make real-world impact and networks turn into real-life opportunities. 🧡
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Whenever I see statists like the ECB get upset about Bitcoin, or when I see more brazen regimes try and actually implement an all-out ban or crazy tax scheme, I turn to my favorite bit of writing anywhere on Bitcoin and remind myself that a ban is the Berlin Wall and that “fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly”
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“Bitcoin is often framed as “competing” with fiat currency. This is true in a sense but I fear there is a rhetorical danger of invoking the wrong kind of “competition”. It is not a fight, for example. There is no conflict. Bitcoin is not trying to damage or sabotage its opponents, because it isn’t trying anything and it knows no opponents. It has no awareness whatsoever of who might oppose it or why. It is simply an alternative; an exit valve; an opt-out. It is competing only insofar as it is proving to be a far superior alternative. It is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth. Bitcoin is Ariadne.
There will be tremendous value in normalizing this rhetoric amidst the likely growing chorus of opposition desperate to smear Bitcoin as inherently nefarious, or hostile, even. Opponents must be forced to explain what is wrong with people interacting freely, and why true goodness can only follow from coercion, in their understanding. Should those who have found a way out of the unbearable labyrinth of capital strip mining not take it? What do they owe the Minotaur?
Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?
… It is worth working through the optics of any decision to engage with Bitcoin in a truly hostile manner, because it is certainly coming. McNeill reminds us that, even some seven-hundred-or-so years ago, “the breakdown of established patterns of conduct always appears deplorable to a majority of those who witness it.” By no means do I have a utopian outlook on this subject — rather, it is something of an intellectual rite of passage to accept the nonzero utility of dystopian paranoia. Bitcoin will be banned, many times, in many places. But a ban is an open admission of practical and moral failure and is arguably the best advertisement of all. A ban is the Berlin Wall; fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly and cruelty of repression. Bitcoin doesn’t force anybody to stay. They come, and then they stay, because they want to — because it is both practically and morally superior.”
Yes! All labyrinthine exits lead to #bitcoin
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