Long ago, when humanity only spoke one language, they decided
to build something magnificent. A tower.
To the heavens they baked their bricks, and they bound them with
tar, and then they said, Come, let us make a name for
ourselves, unless we be scattered over the whole earth.
This is the story of the Tower of Babel.
Early in the book of Genesis, there is a story about humanity
being united by one language. And they were so enamored with
themselves and their ego got so big that they decided to build a
monument, a tower. By doing so, what God did was he
scattered their tongues and scattered them across the earth
so that everyone spoke different languages.
It's about society or humanity wanting to make a name for
themselves. No, I know you're asking how
does this relate to Bitcoin? The Tower of Babel wasn't just
about height, it was about permanence.
It was about humans trying to inscribe their value.
Into eternity it. Was the first monument to
collective ego, but were followed wasn't unity, it was
confusion. God scattered.
Their tongues. And in a single instant, a
shared network of understanding shattered into 1000 dialects.
The story of Babel isn't about divine punishment.
It's about what happens when the language of meaning gets
confused with the language of ambition.
The apostle Paul says that he says God is not mocked for what
a man sows that we also reap. And so I was like trying to
think about this and I'm like, OK, like, so basically that's,
that's saying there's no free lunches.
You know, there's what, what you sow, There's a there's a
correlation, 100% correlation between what you do and and the
consequence they're being consequence of that action.
So I started to think about what are, what are other ways, other
places where you see this dynamic.
First of all, that's just logic. That's just how reason works.
Now, reason says, if this, then this, this is how you know,
seeds work. You know, you reap what you sow,
You know, we, you don't plant orange seeds and get apples.
That's just not how it works. You get, you know, things that
correspond with the kind of seeds you plant.
And so again, the thing that I that really kind of hit me as I
was, you know, thinking about this was because I've been
thinking about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is fresh in my mind,
which just like, OK, so Fiat money denies sowing and reaping
like it denies this relationship between, you know, there being a
cost to the, the production of of money.
Money has always been a kind of language, a way of saying I
value this, you value that. A shared syntax of trust if you
will. But somewhere along the way, our
financial tongue got scattered, too.
Once goal was the common speech of value.
Then came a more dominant dialect, the dollar, much like
English. And then we began printing and
printing and printing. And the more we printed, the
less we said. The words lost weight.
The grammar broke the language of money once we read it in the
scarcity of time now became a dialect of illusion.
Walk through any museum and you'll hear the same story. 100
tongues trying. To describe.
Beauty, but no shared translation.
That's our monetary system of today.
Many are. Speaking if you were listening.
The euro, the yen, the peso, the yuan, each an attempt to rebuild
the tower. And like Babel, every empire's
tower collapses under the weight of their own misunderstanding.
Because when the unit of value can be conjured by decree, it
can be inflated or manipulated, redefined, it stops being the
language of truth. And it starts just.
Being noise now, how does Bitcoin fit?
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beginning of dispersal, Bitcoin might be the beginning of
reunification. Because beneath the noise of
modern finance, beneath trillions of printed words and
worthless promises, a new language emerged.
Not one spoken by governments or banks, but written in code.
You know, there's something that music, math, chess, and Bitcoin
all have in common, and that's that they all speak one language
that everyone can understand. They are all languages that have
a clear rule set, regardless of your native tongue.
I could be a French speaker, but I'll read the same jazz as an
English speaker. 2 + 2 + 4. Whether you're in Kyoto or
Kansas, AC major chord sounds the same in any year.
A Bishop. Always travels in diagonals.
A Bitcoin transaction is true for everyone, everywhere, all
at. Once.
Bitcoin gives us a Ledger that everyone can read.
Where Fiat required interpreters, central banks,
clearing houses, intermediaries, Bitcoin removes them.
Two people anywhere on earth can now speak the same monetary
tongue, and they can verify. What the other says?
Where Fiat scattered us through distortion, Bitcoin unites us
through verification. Where old systems required
belief, Bitcoin demands truth. The people who built the Tower
of Babel thought they were as great as God, but God severed
their communication lines. When communication fails in
civilization, no one trusts each other.
And what do you think the dollar is doing right now?
It's causing us all to mistrust our prices around us, our very
communication system between us, regardless of our native tongue.
Prices are a communication system much like chess, music,
or Bitcoin. Just another way that people
that don't speak the same language can speak the same
language, but the dollar distorts those prices rapidly.
So we are finding it harder and harder to communicate.
Bitcoin fixes those communication lines with its 21
million hard supply cap. Self sovereignty, its ability to
hold it by yourself. The mechanics of bitcoins policy
are built within it. It doesn't need an entire system
around it to make decisions about which 2%, three percent,
4% inflation rate. So maybe building the tower
wasn't the sin. Maybe it was just the attempt to
do so. From Babel to Bitcoin, we're not
just rebuilding a new tower, we're rediscovering a new
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