But this is what is so fascinating about the bitcoin-religion comparison: it *should* be more like smart phones or the internet or something, and yet it's so different. Why does it "completely alter" our perspectives?

tech didn't change people's worldviews... smartphones e.g., just run their lives, having captured their minds etc. But nobody has a completely altered perspective because of them

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I'm trying to think of other cases where a tool becomes a religion. Tech evangelism (you gotta try this new thing) isn't quite the same: bitcoin is so much more participatory. And it has a moral element (the fiat system is evil). Even the environmentalists don't have such a cohesive set of religious elements.

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How I Got Into Bitcoin (Bitcoin Magazine, Joakim Book)

I'm trying to think of other cases where a tool becomes a religion. Tech evangelism (you gotta try this new thing) isn't quite the same: bitcoin is so much more participatory. And it has a moral element (the fiat system is evil). Even the environmentalists don't have such a cohesive set of religious elements. 