Sunday Summary, FEB22
A week in review from the Editor
Supported by Proto and Bitkey - part of the Bitcoin ecosystem at Block, Inc.
Get off your island… It’s happening.
We’re all guilty of myopia. Standing too close to the thing, admiring it with our nose pressed to the glass, oblivious to the outside world.
In Bitcoin, we might be especially guilty of it. Bitcoin fixes this. What is this? Well, everything. Bitcoin fixes everything! If you just study the protocol and the incentives and read the white paper, you’d see it too.
Bitcoin, is Flex Tape spread across the world, slammed on leaky tanks and sinking boats, restoring everything to a state of functional wholeness. (It even works under water!)
It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, the phenomena is universal.
The AI Labs see the whole world through the lens of model training and AGI, the Bitcoin developers know code will save us, the energy innovators are sprinting towards nuclear abundance, yet something is happening right now that should pull everyone's head up from their proverbial workbenches.
An era of convergence.
In the late 20th century, telecom, computing, and media were totally separate industries with separate cultures and separate trade shows (much like AI, BTC, and energy). Then a convergence emerged, and the people who saw it early, who had peripheral vision, built the next era.
Those who stayed on their islands got acquired or became irrelevant.
We're watching convergence happen again in real time: AI wants Bitcoin; Bitcoin wants to fix money; both want energy; energy innovation needs customers.
A self-reinforcing loop is emerging that nobody designed. It’s beautiful.
Yet, convergence is not inherently good.
These same powerful tools, AI, programmable money, abundant energy, can converge around centralized control just as easily as around individual sovereignty. The paths fundamentally resolve to a familiar choice: freedom or control. And because these new tools are so powerful, the stakes of that choice are amplified enormously.
At this early stage, sovereignty might matter most.
These technologies must remain free. They must be built and preserved with individual sovereignty as a foundational commitment, not an afterthought.
This new moment of convergence doesn't belong to the deep specialist, it belongs to those with peripheral vision, the ones who can see across domains and understand what's actually forming.
So get off your island.
The future isn't in the silo, it's in sovereign connections.