Will Bitcoin Survive AI? (It's the Only Thing That Will.)
Ideas to take with you.
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The cybersecurity equilibrium of the last 16 years rested on exploit-discovery being expensive; frontier models have collapsed that cost for attackers and defenders alike.
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Bitcoin defends itself through voluntary decentralized action – holders motivated to protect the money they already use, without needing a central security budget.
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Two things AI cannot dissolve: the laws of thermodynamics and human self-interest. A scarce money is the bridge that lets one price the other.
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As AI commoditizes cognitive and physical work, what remains priceable is the irreducibly human – presence, taste, judgment, being seen by another human.
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Most people will not reason their way into a new monetary worldview; they will feel it. That makes the skills that produce feeling in others – design, community, showing up – more load-bearing, not less.
