The singularity of Bitcoin lies not in its architecture, but in its status as a discovery rather than an invention. To launch a protocol today is to navigate a pre-existing map of value and speculation. This awareness creates a center of gravity—an inescapable intent—that prevents the emergence of a truly neutral substrate. Bitcoin utilized a specific temporal window where energy could be anchored to mathematics before the world understood the result. This is the transition from high-entropy chaos to low-entropy order without the interference of a conscious market.

Consider the first fire. Before its discovery, heat was a periodic mercy of nature, a lightning strike in the dark. Once the mechanism was understood, every subsequent flame became an act of utility, a controlled product of human will. You can copy the heat, but you cannot recreate the era when fire was a mystery of the heavens rather than a tool in a box. Bitcoin is the lightning strike; all else is the match.

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