I have mentioned that Bitcoin allowed various AI to evolve into Silicon-based life forms with the support of date of open source in encrypted world and directly participate in human production and distribution. Bitcoin represents a new kind of human civilization.
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Bible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibleHere’s part of the original text:
Genesis 11:1 At that time, all humans shared the same language and accent.
Genesis 11:2 And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
Genesis 11:4 Then they said,“Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the havens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:5 The LOAD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.
Genesis 11:6 And the LOAD said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they purpose to do will now be impossible for them.
Genesis 11:7 Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
Genesis 11:8 So the LOAD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
Genesis 11:9 Therefore it was called Babel, because there the LOAD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LOAD scattered them.
That’s the story about the Tower of Babel. After the devastating flood, the first rainbow appeared in the sky. God used the rainbow as a sign of the covenant with humans on the earth that no flood would come ever and mankind in the world spoke the same language of the same accent. But later, humans began to doubt God's oath and embarked on building the Tower of Babel, provoking God. So God decided to change and distinguish the language of mankind, causing them scattered everywhere and therefore the Tower of Babel was abandoned halfway.
The story goes roughly like this:
- 1.God uses the rainbow as a proof that he will never destroy the world with a flood again;
- 2.People are suspicious of that proof because they think there is no reason to believe that their future depend on the rainbow;
- .They decide to build themselves a city, and a tower with its top in the havens to make a name for themselves in case that they are scattered;
- 4.God realizes that his pledge is under suspicion, punishment is on the way;
- 5.He finds out the uniform language is the key of building the Tower of Babel;
- 6.He changes and differentiates the language of mankind, which makes them scattered everywhere because of language barriers, leaving the Tower of Babel unfinished.
There’re three points:
crisis of confidence, shared language, collective collaboration.God agreed with mankind with a rainbow that he would no longer destroy the earth with floods. Mankind did not believe in the guarantee of the rainbow, so he built Tower of Babel to make his name known. Mankind is proud of it. Because human beings have a unified language that can realize collective cooperation, the tower can be built. God has changed and distinguished the human language, so that humans can no longer cooperate collectively.
Bitcoin is revolving around solving those three problems since trust, language and collaboration are the most primary characteristic of it.
Bitcoin is rebuilding the Tower of Babel of human collective collaboration!By this story, I wish it could help more people to better understand the features of Bitcoin, to look at Bitcoin in its real meaning.
In my opinion, Bitcoin indicates essentially a kind of collaborative network between humans and humans, humans and machines, and machines and machines under the same machine language based on machine trust, which is a social form to be built in the crypto world in the future and the true value that Bitcoin brings to human civilization.As a collaborative network, Bitcoin has brought a globally efficient coordination method to mankind, minimizing the cost of trust. This consensus will inevitably promote the development of human civilization. That is the nature of digital Bit Civilization.
Bitcoin is rebuilding the Tower of Babel of human collective collaboration because it settled the issue of language, trust and collaboration. Do you agree with me?