Last night, I had the distinct pleasure of having an in-depth conversation with Jeff Booth, who I often call the Eckhart Tolle of Bitcoin.
Booth, soft-spoken but direct, brought up one point in particular in the conversation, which I didn’t catch at first, that ended up touching me deeply.
He said several times “We are Bitcoin” in an attempt to drive home the point that Bitcoin will continue to work if we continue to make it work.
At first this statement seemed to contradict Bitcoin. Technically, of course, we are not Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an open source protocol that allows people to transfer value securely and without permission. Also, Bitcoin was designed in a way that actually requires less human involvement than traditional financial and financial systems, as its rate of inflation cannot be changed by humans and there are no middlemen involved in Bitcoin transactions.
But we are Bitcoin, just like Booth said.
Say we have to wrap nodes to keep the network distributed.
We are the ones connecting the miners to help power and secure the network.
And we are the ones who teach others about Bitcoin and protect it on social media.
We are people in the network, doing our part to keep Bitcoin working and spreading information about Bitcoin to the world.
Without our taking responsibility as human nodes, Bitcoin is less volatile, less secure and less understood.
So, if you are reading this, know that you are Bitcoin, part of the greatest system of human freedom and prosperity ever created, and both taste that and act accordingly.