OK so again...I am stuck on this idea of needing to help guide and ensure that the incentives we Bitcoin business owners use to help drive more business are aligned properly with the network to help ensure more adoption....

First - Another crazy reason for WHY BITCOIN (not that anyone needs one) :) But this gets you into my head...Alas, its kind of long so I thank you for your time and hope you find it worthwhile.

To me this quote signifies the recognition by Dr. King that the reality we live in and perceive is indeed fraught with horrible injustices, and that given a long enough time horizon for the observer (us), we will see things move toward a more "just" or "true" path.

Now to me, this quote also seems to closely rhyme with the idea of Entropy in physics…which is basically a description of how systems lose their energy over time or settle to their “base” state.

Do you see where I am going yet? (Spoiler - I think Bitcoin's base state is to be equally distributed across the network)

OK - I am not sure that any of us possess the ability to determine what is or what isn't right or wrong....but as a human system we have all generally agreed on some pretty significant ideas of how this looks - think things like murder, kidnap, theft on the things we shouldn't do and things like freedom and love on things that we should do....or things that "are" such as protons, electrons, and their spin...(this agreement is why we are able to send astronauts to space).

This human system we live in, when it has the chance to progress for an extended period of time seems to gain entropy - in that the beliefs of the few seem to become outweighed (or agreed upon) by that of the many over time. (knowledge that closely aligns with the natural laws of the world become ingrained and embedded in our reality) (This is an aspect of Bitcoin)

This seems to be what is happening with our system of communicating value to each other - I would argue that all the systems prior to Bitcoin have been based on the views or beliefs of the few in control or at the top and all others were simply forced to go along with program in order to be as successful as they could in those systems. The tricky thing about these previous systems is that they appeared on their face to be accurate representations of a systems based on natural law (scarce and finite - think gold or beads made from shells) but they were prone to abuse or worse have become completely changed and based on nothing but the good will of a governing body. This abuse of the systems isn't due to someone waking up one morning and saying "hey I'm going to co-opt and use our system of money to abuse and control our people....rather I posit that human nature is to blame...

We all want to have more freedom to do what we want with our time and energy, and based on our value communication systems of the past, the only way to ensure we had the most freedom was to ensure we had the most of "whatever the best store of that value" was/is. This is (I think) our human nature...and it is one of the things that (as a species) makes us so unstoppable - think about your history, and how so much of what drives us forward is us fighting over what we believe is best for us? I mean it happens today....we believe our kids need to brush their teeth in order to maintain healthy teeth and gums, our kids don't have the knowledge of how much better life is when you are older if you have your teeth and gums and so they fight us...

Anyway...

Now Bitcoin - boy this thing is beautiful - it is digitally immutable, scarce, and decentralized. Which alone would give it a better chance of being successful than all others but.... Now you have to add on the kicker of it being anti-fragile (or anti-entropic) and wow!!! This one characteristic might just be the most important of them all! The reason behind its anti-fragile character is simply the energy that it takes to maintain it.

Maybe its just me but - in my head, when I play this thing out beyond even the last of the mining...the amount of energy it is going to take to maintain this system after 100-200-500 years is going to be massive. This should not scare you - it isn't a problem that can't be solved - we all need energy to grow - its part of the systems we live in and if we want to expand our systems we have to expand our energy production and consumption....its simple nature. Bitcoin is going to require an ever increasing amount of energy to maintain the network in a decentralized, scarce, immutable fashion and for that we as a human system will have to find ways to provide that and I know we will - we already have the methods to do so sustainably and Bitcoin will help ensure this happens. When i think about how Bitcoin is already encouraging more sustainable methods of energy production and then game theory that out for a couple hundred years it just makes sense. Bitcoin is going to help humanity remain a viable system right along with it. Its almost like the opposite of the Matrix (which is where our FIAT system would likely take us) but instead of the machines sucking out our energy we utilize the machines to allow us to grow along side them. As the energy production systems grow more robust and reliable so does our system of humans...call me old fashioned but I believe humans will figure it out, we have this innate ability to feel when something doesn't quite work right or doesn't fit with our interpretation of the real world and we look for ways to adjust it so that it does.

From a physics standpoint - this system of value communication - ranks at the top and not just at the top but I would argue, exponentially higher than any previous system we have had and likely will be the system that will govern our communication of value amongst ourselves for eons. It is about as close to a perfect or "natural" system of value communication as one can get. I mean just read through Jason P. Lowery's thesis - "Softwar" - he is describing this exact concept and goes through a very long and thorough history of these natural systems and compares Bitcoin to them beautifully (as long as you view the warfighting parts as beautiful as well). Warfighting is a part of nature, he shows that in essence every thing tends to fight or "compete" in nature - why would our system(s) of value communication fight, especially when they can be manipulated by those who hold more, or can print more? Well now we have a system that can't be manipulated, printed, or controlled....now we have a system that wants to "naturally" entropy, and only through human action can we prevent that entropy through providing value to the system.

Anyway....just something to think about at block 842439