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Part 1: No reason to reinvent Bitcoin

How Bitcoin is analogous to the Wheel

“No reason to reinvent the wheel.” Why do we say that?

A couple weeks back I had a realization; breaking down to it’s fundamentals; Bitcoin as a monetary system is analogous to the wheel for transportation.

Starting with the wheel, it must first be broken down to it’s most fundamental components to begin to understand why it’s a simplified protocol in physical representation.

To call something a wheel, it must have two things:

1. A circular rim that rolls on a surface

2. an axle hole that allows it to rotate

Without both, it’s not a wheel but fundamentally something else.

With these two rules of the protocol in place, we now have the foundation for which a nearly limitless number of applications can be built upon, and improvements in society realized. In the wheel’s case, it was scaled and applied in endless use cases over thousands of years:

~3500 BCE: wheeled vehicles begin in Mesopotamia, marking it’s first known use in transportation

~3000-2000 BCE: the concept spreads to other cultures (Egypt, China) where its applications evolve for agriculture and militaristic uses

~2000-1000 BCE: the design is improved upon, examples being spokes and wheel hubs, increasing efficiency and durability

~1000 BCE-500 CE – innovations such as the chariot further expand utility for uses in transportation

18th-19th century – industrial revolution breaks through greatly expands the uses for wheels, such as trains, machinery, and steam powered engines

Note: (one could refer to this period as the S curve in adoption)

20th century – cars, airplanes, industrial machinery expands use cases

A couple key takeaways here:

- The wheel is the underlying component existing through time and space

- The applications built on top of the wheel allowed for endless inventions advancing human civilization

It’s key also to note that it’s not the wheel alone providing the value. It’s only when it’s built upon is value realized. But removing the foundational wheel itself; no value is realized.

Understanding this background, in Part 2 we’ll pivot the focus to Bitcoin.

https://zachsbtcthoughts.substack.com/p/coming-soon

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I have not. But I have heard of it. Should I add it to my reading list?

Sometimes we know something without knowing how we know something. Just a thought.

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On Julian Assange #It'sOn

Must Watch.

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On Beverly Ann McGraw #It'sOn

Anyone know why they pulled it from all other social media? Junseth's account on X is now suspended. This is NOSTR moment to shine 💯

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I thought a little about what you said. To be honest, I wasn't basing my definition of full immunity on a dictionary. Even though English is my second language lol. I was basing it on my lived experience, as the expression goes. I grew up in Africa and the Middle East and I was subjected to a LOT of vaccinations. More than you folks in the West. Heck, maybe we were the guinea pigs 😒 In fact, most of my "smart" cousins are doctors who advocate vaccines because that's what you study in college when you are smart 🙄 And there's that whole pesky thing about ridding the world of small pox thanks to vaccinations. Anyways, point well-taken. The point I was making is the REVERSAL of logic whereby to be protected by a vaccine, first you need other people to be vaccinated. It used to be vaccines protect you from other people, infectious or not. Hence the debasement of language. QED.

This morning I had a thought. Albeit, one that I have often. The meaning of words. That is to say, their definition.

When "authorities" change what a word means or how to use it, that is a debasement of language. Think about it. The word vaccine used to mean a treatment that confers FULL immunity so that you can move around freely without fear since you have armor or protection from said disease. Why worry who has an infection. You are vaccinated therefore immune, right?

But with the "pandemic", to be vaccinated meant that others have to be immune for you to be safe. See the underhanded change in the definition? Did you spot it? Others have to be immune, not you. That's what vaccines mean now and we didn't even need a new dictionary, Merriam-Webster.

Debasement of language is the NEW, NEW inflation. One devalues currency, the other language.

It is a brave new world indeed.

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I had this theory once. Ivermectin is an anti-inflammatory drug. Maybe that's why people like it for so many things lately. Including you know what 👀

Anyways, I thought I would try it for the first time, not because I got some made up disease. Not that. It is because all of a sudden I have bags under my eyes. All those years, I never had such a problem. My sleep was good. Back when I had an Oura ring to track my sleep architecture.

I just found out that not only is Ivermectin not a good drug, it is downright dangerous. Yes, you read that correctly. Don't take my word for it. Here's a video you should watch and decide for yourself. You're welcome.

https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/covid-19/the-ivermectin-games/

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There. Post done.

Remember SNL from the 80s and Deep Thoughts with Jack Handy?

I was thinking about Stephen Hawking and the woman who told him, "the earth is flat and it is turtles all the way down." That was one of the original memes. The word meme is courtesy of Richard Dawkins, a stanch atheist.

All of a sudden, I thought, "is it turtles all the way up?" What I mean by that is, how did existence come to be? I know about the Big Bang Theory and all. I also was educated in religious schools, Muslim (Sudan, Saudi Arabia) and Catholic (Williamsburg, VA). That is to say, I know about God creating the world in 7 days. Yes, it is the same story in Christianity and Islam. Surprised?

But just like a fish in a fish bowl can't "see" past its world (the bowl) and "feels" something is off because that isn't its natural habitat (the river, the sea, the ocean), we humans keep asking ourself what is the meaning of life? Where do come from? If God created us, who created God? What is the beginning of the beginning?

Maybe we are two lost souls living in a fish bowl year after year. Pink Floyd.

Maybe we, like the fish, are not in our "natural habitat" and we need help getting back home. Bitcoin fixes this.

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On Wealth #It'sOn

There is a thesis courtesy of Allan Farrington that Gross Domestic Product, otherwise known as GDP, is a misleading metric for measuring the performance of a nation state. My bad. I was totally conceptualizing wealth in GDP terms. When you are an unapologetic Economist reader. Not anymore. I lost my free access. Getting back on topic. Apparently, GDP is a better measure of an organization's ability to destroy wealth rather than capture it. Shocking. This leads me to think that our own measurement as individuals through the metric known as "net worth" is probably the wrong way to think of our economic value. That is, our worthiness as a creditor. Instead, we should be judged on our ability to transform or translate given credit to true value or desirable good. In other words, wealth. Let me say that again. When people take on debit, and in return, produce something that people want, need, or desire, that is wealth. Yet, that is not how we do things. We have it all wrong. We need a revisionist history on that. A great injustice has been carried out and people are supposedly non-the-wiser. They look askance when the hand of true justice points the finger at them. Not me, they want to say. Not my fault. I didn't know. Bullshit, I say in response. You knew all along. You had a front row seat. You chose to look the other way. You took the money. You sold your soul to the devil, all the while claiming the moral high ground. What insult to injury. Instead of making useless arguments that no one in their right mind would believe, how about you do the right thing. Not apologize. That is an empty gesture and words are cheap. Do something. Change the system. Change your ways. Maya Angelou famously said, "when you know better, you do better". Which is funny if you think about it because "ignorance of the law" is also no excuse, as we are told by those who enforce the law. I turn it back to them. How do you explain the blatant criminality then? Pray tell, how is it that you are able to rob, steal, injure and kill with impunity in the name of bravery, humanity and freedom? When was the last time you admitted THE TRUTH. Not my truth, your truth, their truth. In the end, those who right the ship, find the righteous path, take the arduous journey are rewarded for their courage, strong-will, and character. Resist temptations, small lies, justifications of clear wrong-doings. If you don't the devil will take your spirit as promised. Don't cry foul. You have no leg to stand on. Amen.

GM NOSTR. If you watch any popular Bitcoin podcasts, then you've probably ran across the truism that "the map is not the territory."

Well, I just was listening to Scott Adam

of Dilbert cartoon fame, and he was arguing about the weaponization of our justice system. He calls it lawfare (as opposed to warfare). Get it?

Then I was struck with a thought (as I have the annoying tendency to do) that the idea that there is tension between the spirit of the law versus the letter of the law, is another way of exposing the territory is not the map.

The spirit of is the territory and the letter is the map.

Happy Sunday,

Noha

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