Bitcoin is the Protagonist
The world is rapidly digitizing.
Just as information moved from physical books to the internet, value is increasingly moving from physical assets (cash, gold in vaults) to digital representations.
Not only are the growth rates in digital assets much faster than their analog counterparts… the cost profiles are much smaller while also being easier to predict.
A digital store of value to hold this growing economic energy will emerge, and Bitcoin is destined to be that global store of wealth.
Bitcoin reminds me of the movie Tenet. In Tenet, certain objects and people can have their entropy reversed, allowing them to move backward through time. This is used to fight a future threat that wants to destroy the past.
Bitcoin inverts traditional economic friction. It's a digital asset designed to move value through "time" (transactions across borders and time zones) with dramatically reduced friction compared to the traditional financial system.
The "villain" in our analogy is the $10 trillion in annual damage from friction in the analog economy. This represents:
Taxes: Complex and often inefficient tax systems worldwide, with high compliance costs.
Maintenance: The costs associated with maintaining physical infrastructure for the analog economy (buildings, paper-based systems, physical transportation of value).
Physical Costs: The costs of producing, storing, and securing physical assets, including cash. Think of the environmental impact, security guards, armored trucks, etc.
Intermediary Fees: Banks, payment processors, and other intermediaries take cuts at every step of traditional financial transactions.
Inefficiency and Delays: Settlement times, cross-border payment complexities, and bureaucratic hurdles slow down economic activity.
Inflation: loss of purchasing power due to increased monetary supply.
Bitcoin is the "protagonist" fighting this future threat. It's not moving backward in time, but it's offering a present-day solution that mitigates the future damage caused by the continued dominance of the analog, friction-heavy economic system.
Just as Tenet has "the Algorithm" that controls inverted entropy, Bitcoin has its protocol (proof-of-work, 21 million coin limit, decentralized network). This algorithm is the key to its ability to resist the "future threat" of economic friction.
The $10 trillion in friction is a growing problem. As more economic activity moves online, the inefficiencies of the analog system become even more apparent and costly. It's a drag on growth and innovation. This friction acts like an ever-increasing "tax" on the future.
Bitcoin offers a present-day alternative. By adopting Bitcoin, individuals and businesses can immediately reduce their exposure to the frictions of the traditional system. They can transact faster, cheaper, and with greater control. As Bitcoin adoption grows, it creates a parallel financial system that is inherently more efficient. This puts pressure on the traditional system to adapt or become obsolete. Bitcoin's existence today shapes the future by providing a working model of a lower-friction economy. This is the "inverted entropy" effect – acting in the present to change the future trajectory.
Bitcoin is a “Temporal Pincer Movement on Economic Friction” using several technologies: ECC, SHA-256, the blockchain data structure, Proof-of-Work, the P2P network, Merkle trees, and time stamping. Bitcoin's operation, security, and decentralization each require these pieces. They work together in a complex and elegant way to create a trustless, secure, and transparent system for digital currency.
Just as the effectiveness of the temporal pincer movement in Tenet relies on coordinated action, Bitcoin's effectiveness relies on network effects and layered technologies.
The more people who use Bitcoin, the stronger the network becomes, the more secure it is, and the greater its ability to resist the "future threat" of economic friction.
The analog economy is riddled with $10 trillion in annual friction – taxes, fees, inefficiencies. As the world digitizes, this friction will become an even bigger problem. Bitcoin is a time-resistent technology, operating in the present, to prevent that damage. It's a parallel financial system, built for the digital age, that allows us to move value with minimal friction. By adopting Bitcoin today, we're not just saving money now; we're protecting the future from the escalating costs of an outdated system. It's a temporal pincer movement on economic inefficiency, and the United States of America is going to use it to reverse out of $36T of debt.
Game theory will kick-off between the G7 / BRICS and other groupings of countries who will want access to the Bitcoin network and who will need to establish reserves as they buildout their hashrate in-country.
Bitcoin is a time-resistent technology that does more than just prevent the damage from analog economic friction… it lets that energy feedforward and compound to larger sums in faster timelines.
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