TD₿: How Bitcoin is Like A Giant Cybernetic Meta-Brain by Tomer Strolight
TL;DR Decentralization and full nodes in the Bitcoin ecosystem resemble neurons within a brain.
Hey Bitcoiners,
The imagination and deep thinking of other bitcoiners always astound me.
There have been many blog posts and articles over the years that have compared Bitcoin to many different disciplines and ideas.
I think this happens partly because Bitcoin is such a new and innovative technology that the easiest way to try to explain it is to compare it to other things we already understand.
Satoshi Nakamoto himself expressed this idea,
“Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to.”
Bitcoin educators have constantly run into the same problem Satoshi eludes to here and have overcome it by using analogies to explain Bitcoin.
I enjoyed this new analogy from one of my favorite Bitcoin writers, Tomer Strolight, who wrote an interesting article that compares Bitcoin to a brain (06/12/2021).
Analogies are useful to help better understand Bitcoin but ultimately Bitcoin is just a new form of money… new money that will change the world.
Tick tock next block,
Cory Klippsten
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