The Role of Bitcoin in the Era of Generative AI

<h1>The History of Scarcity</h1> <p>The history of life is a story of scarcity, but the history of humanity is a story of triumph over scarcity. Millions of years ago, hominids began to differentiate themselves from other animals by mastering fire. While some other animals can rudimentarily use tools, only humans gained control over fire and more complex tools. With that we started building shelters and weapons. With the invention of agriculture and animal husbandry, we gained greater control over our own sustenance, achieving a crucial victory over our primary risks: security and food. Previously, food and security were extremely scarce, requiring hunting and foraging for sustenance and defending against threats.</p> <p>In primitive societies, ideas were scarce. Before the development of language, one had access primarily to their own thoughts. Some philosophers even argue that thought is intimately linked to language, implying a scarcity of complex thoughts. With language, people began exchanging information and developing a sense of history, passing down some information verbally through generations, but still limited to what could be memorized, necessitating the creation of memorable stories that rhymed. With writing, we gained access to the precise ideas of countless people from the past, many of whom had ideas that would have been lost to time if not for their manuscripts recovered years later. However, even with a way to reduce the scarcity of food and security, a large part of the population still lived in need with limited access to education and to these manuscripts, which were fragile and carefully guarded in monasteries. Ideas were still scarce, limited to a few individuals, and the recorded manuscripts had to be painstakingly copied by hand and carefully managed.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@brenorb/the-role-of-bitcoin-in-the-generative-ai-era-a8d6c0b63a81"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>