This is how I think about Bitcoin.
Picture this. There are only ever going to be 21 million acres of digital land. The last acre gets released to the world around the year 2140, and acre number 21,000,001 will never exist.
That's Bitcoin. A fixed amount, and nobody can make more.
If you're learning about and using Bitcoin today, you're a little like the first trailblazers who crossed America. They cut the paths everybody else followed later, and they settled a great nation.
Nobody handed them a map. They figured it out as they went, made mistakes, and kept moving.
Bitcoin is the land that makes up the digital frontier. How you divide it up and what you do with it is up to the landowner. Some folks grow corn. Some build skyscrapers. And just like the early pioneers, the ones who settled it got to live free on their own ground.
Every frontier needs people to protect it. On the Bitcoin network, that's:
Together, they're the network's guard, its cavalry, its band of brothers. They protect their own stake and everybody else's at the same time.
We're all pioneers. We're working out property rights on digital land that folks not yet born will someday want to understand. When they come, they'll come in numbers, the same way the wagons rolled west.
We're blessed to be here at this moment in time, the same way the pioneers were blessed to stake a claim on wild, untamed land.
Pioneering was never safe or easy. A lot of folks who headed west had hard years. Bitcoin can be rough too, with big price swings and real risks. Learn before you ride. Our Bitcoin Explained guide covers the basics and the risks.
Read The Bitcoin Frontier: Embracing Freedom and New Beginnings and The Frontier Never Ended.
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