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What is your opinion of the following? Let me know in the comments!

I want to understand and categorise Bitcoin into levels, where each level is a follow-up and an abstraction of the prior level. Each level is dependent on the prior level, and is a consequence of the prior levels.

They are as follows.

Level 0: Non-negotiable techno-architectural foundations (immutable by definition)

  • e.g. proof-of-work consensus mechanism, distributed consensus without central authority...

Level 1: Necessary consequences (flow inevitably; altering them requires changing Level 0 foundations)

  • e.g. censorship-resistance, immutability, decentralisation, permissionless...

Level 3: Functional emergents (depend on how the system operates in practice, not on protocol design)

  • e.g. inflation-hedge, store of value,

Level 4: Cultural-political interpretations (not properties of Bitcoin itself, but interpretations projected onto it)

  • e.g. freedom technology, digital gold,

Level 5: Ideological interpretations (broader political, economic, or philosophical systems)

  • e.g. digital metallism, crypto-anarchism, crypto-authoritarianism, crypto-mercantilism