“I wish people engineered things to be self-replicating, self adjusting, self-governing, and ever-lasting. But nobody has engineered anything to do even one of these, and then along comes Bitcoin and does them all” - Tomer Strolight

Bitcoin isn't merely a new innovation in the world of tech, its a wholly unique system that behaves so differently from everything today, the social, the engineering, and the organic systems that we are accustomed to, that one could easily find themselves wondering whether it makes more sense that Bitcoin is an alien technology. Maybe we know that it isn't, but it is certainly hard to learn about Bitcoin without once pausing to wonder...

check out this piece plus tons of other great work from Tomer below:
https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/why-people-wonder-if-bitcoin-is-alien-technology-f9fda5b018b

Mentioned in the episode for further reading/exploring:
Brandon Quittem's Mycelium Series
Part 1 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-a-decentralized-organism/
Part 2 - https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/CryptoQuikRead_224---Bitcoin-is-a-Social-Creature--Mycelium-Part-2-e3iq3u
Part 3 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-the-antivirus/
Part 4 - https://bitcoinaudible.com/bitcoin-is-a-catalyst-for-human-evolution/
Bitcoin is Generational Wealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rnqst5qCgA

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