Tomorrow, there's an undeniable leak confirming presence of beings from other planets.
They're here, and they're looking to interact with the funny water-planet monkey people.
Maybe you've seen how these macaques trade stolen valuable items for food, or with each other for grooming services: The Chimpanzee's Service Economy Food for Grooming
I think trading is a fundamental part of lifeforms at a certain level, so will ETs trade with us to earn bitcoin?
Absolutely. If it's intelligent life.
They would likely have entirely different blind spots, unlikely that one of the same ones would be that it's ok to trade valueless paper as money aside fire-propelled vehicles.
Different planet, different tech tree
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Great article.
Certainly tracks with my theory that we either all adopt bitcoin and figure out how to leave this planet, or the species is doomed.