Bill on Nostr: In a world obsessed with data, rationality, and code, we forget that our most ...

In a world obsessed with data, rationality, and code, we forget that our most important truths—identity, meaning, death, transcendence—are not calculated, they’re revealed through symbol.

Symbols are compression algorithms for reality. Before logic, there was myth. Before speech, there was signal.

Bitcoiners already get this—whether they know it or not.

- The key isn’t just math—it’s identity.
- The block isn’t just data—it’s memory.
- The halving isn’t just economics—it’s ritual.
- The difficulty adjustment isn’t just code—it’s mythic equilibrium.

Eliade’s point: symbols don’t represent reality—they reveal it. Myths aren’t dead stories; they’re active structures of meaning.

Bitcoin is a symbolic system. It encodes truth in a way fiat never could. You don’t reason your way into Bitcoin—you recognize it. You feel its coherence. That’s symbolic cognition. That’s myth operating as protocol.

If we dismiss symbolic thinking, we miss what gives Bitcoin (and NOSTR, and everything else in the Sovereign stack) its soul.