I'm just one person. One key point is I have *zero* ideas on how to solve peak complexity from this side. This is where I vary from the Bitcoin folks ...
I'm just one person. One key point is I have *zero* ideas on how to solve peak complexity from this side. This is where I vary from the Bitcoin folks who feel it is the solution from this side. I solve nothing from here. My work is primarily for refactoring and visualizing after collapse events. So, pretty much aligned with much of your response. I just don't see Bitcoin as a solution either.
I could well be wrong, and the foundations that you and other Bitcoiners are laying down I *could* see as critical, if we collapse in ways that preserve chip fab and network connectivity. Both things might also be true. It might take collapse before Bitcoin sees broad adoption (defining broad adoption as most people I see and most stores I see in my neighborhood.) There is room for both perspectives. Few are building simple cognitive tools like mine. Everything I build will run completely offline. Further, it is all very small. An entire Logical Map, multi-level data and material flow and documentation is less than 1MB, and is included in a single artifact (a PNG file). We don't particularly appreciate that now, but not needing to pull from ecosystems around the globe (and mostly owned by a centralized apex cloud entity) will be important as this crumbles.
Resilience is a disposition that emerges after crises. Cognitive tools, decentralized payment ledger methods, decentralized communication (Nostr, Bitchat), permaculture, focus on local communities/culture... all of that I can see as needed as part of our kit. I'm not arrogant about my stuff being needed at that point, but it is possible, so I'm putting it in the time capsule.