Bitcoin: The Internet of Money?

While madmen and criminals slaughter innocent people (cf. René Girard: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning) – demonstrating their ignorance of the Lessons of History (cf. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: That’s why all this has happened) – computer scientists devote time and effort to developing new technologies that respect everyone’s hard work and protect personal freedom. “Être plus, c’est s’unir davantage” reminds Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Bitcoin is the computer (numerical) expression of the principle: “tous [… échanges] en tout [… bitcoin], et tout en tous”. Lightning allows this protocol to be generalized to all types of transactions. This is why, assuming the core values and founding principles underlying these technologies do last, Lightning Labs’ recent software release (Taproot-Assets, v0.3.0.), allowing developers to issue all sorts of financial assets on-chain in a scalable manner, potentially makes Bitcoin the global network for the Internet of Money.