Your brain runs on less power than a dim light bulb—about 20 watts.
Yet that tiny energy budget supports a level of cognition that megawatt-scale AI clusters still struggle to match.
This contrast reveals a fundamental design principle: The most capable systems are not the ones with the most resources. They are the ones with the best constraints.
We see this same divide in the monetary world:
🔸 Fiat Money behaves like a massive AI cluster. It relies on complexity, constant intervention, and brute force scale. It is expansion-driven, mirroring bureaucracy.
🔸 Bitcoin behaves like the human brain. It operates within hard limits, simple rules, and decentralized validation. It is constraint-driven, mirroring biology.
One design leads to noise and fragility. The other leads to signal and stability.
In my latest piece for FIRE BTC, I explore why nature’s most efficient systems reveal Bitcoin’s deepest strength—and why architecture matters more than energy consumption.
Read the full article here: https://firebtc.substack.com/p/brains-bitcoin-and-the-power-of-constraints
Yet that tiny energy budget supports a level of cognition that megawatt-scale AI clusters still struggle to match.
This contrast reveals a fundamental design principle: The most capable systems are not the ones with the most resources. They are the ones with the best constraints.
We see this same divide in the monetary world:
🔸 Fiat Money behaves like a massive AI cluster. It relies on complexity, constant intervention, and brute force scale. It is expansion-driven, mirroring bureaucracy.
🔸 Bitcoin behaves like the human brain. It operates within hard limits, simple rules, and decentralized validation. It is constraint-driven, mirroring biology.
One design leads to noise and fragility. The other leads to signal and stability.
In my latest piece for FIRE BTC, I explore why nature’s most efficient systems reveal Bitcoin’s deepest strength—and why architecture matters more than energy consumption.
Read the full article here: https://firebtc.substack.com/p/brains-bitcoin-and-the-power-of-constraints