I think Bitcoin maximalism is having a bit of an identity crisis. Five different people give you five different definitions. What's the point of using it anymore?
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Definitions are not reality, they are just very lossy summaries. They are also not much help in discovering use cases. If you want to understand Bitcoin, or understand what it's useful for, headlines and tweet-sized definitions are certainly not going to do it for you.
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Actually we should start with (and mostly finish with) the computer science. Sadly not something that is easy to teach.
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I define it as what this visual FX animator in Mexico City wanted me to send him for compensation for animation effects. Call it what you want. I call it “Money.”
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An essential step in understanding anything is recognizing the inadequacy of language to describe it. Words are blunt tools, true understanding begins after language is exhausted.
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Einstein said negative definitions are sometimes the most fruitful. There are no perpetual motion machines=>thermodynamics. There are no absolute reference frames=>relativity. Bitcoin may become the asset that lets you store decentralized facts.
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Won't have a meta cognition unless having skin in the game. Won't understand
#bitcoin until ignoring our dreams/doubts/skepticism/fears/imaginations/questions/wonders/expectations & start using it in every possible aspect; discovering the meaning of money/value/ourselves/life.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Bitcoin is many things at the same time, many yet to be discovered or "defined".
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I'm confused. How can I signal I'm on team Bitcoin and that we share a collective financial interest, and thus others should give me their money, in two words or less? I HOPE you are not suggesting... past actions or 'proof of work'. Sincerely, Truest Bitcoin
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I'm confused as to why you think any significant portion of reality can be conveyed in two words.
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