Imagine two apples on the table. They can be eaten, rot over time, or simply disappear. But the idea of "two apples" remains, even if they vanish. This notion of "two" — a mathematical representation — does not depend on the apples to exist. The number 2 does not change, does not age, and does not get lost. It is always the same, in any time or place.
This difference between the sensible world (the apples) and the intelligible world (the number 2) reveals something important: what is grasped by reason, like numbers, seems to have a more stable and profound existence than what is perceived by the senses.
This logic can also be applied to another comparison: Bitcoin and gold. Gold is like the apples — material, visible, and sensible. It can be touched, measured, and stored. However, it is also subject to time, physical scarcity, and human manipulation.
Bitcoin, on the other hand, although it also involves material aspects (such as energy and equipment), is fundamentally an abstract structure. Its value and function are based on mathematical codes, logical rules, and cryptographic consensus. It is not visible or tangible like gold, but it is rooted in principles closer to the world of reason.
Following this reasoning, one could say that Bitcoin, like the number 2, participates in a higher reality — less subject to the variations of the physical world and more rooted in rational and universal structures. Gold is rare and valuable, but Bitcoin is programmed, predictable, and, in some ways, more "immutable."
Just as the number 2 continues to exist even without apples, the structural value of Bitcoin remains even without vaults or gold bars. This makes us rethink: What is unseen — but understood — is, in the end, what is truly real.
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