AI Makes Truth Cheap; Bitcoin Offers Civilization an Unforgeable History
tallmetommy · x · 2026-09-03
The author argues AI is making reality infinitely forgeable — voices, images, documents, identities, agents — while Bitcoin moves in the opposite direction, making a canonical history of ownership brutally expensive to rewrite.\n\nCore claim: Bitcoin's deepest moat may not be scarcity but memory — a thermodynamically priced, tamper-proof ledger, a scarce primitive in a world of cheap manufactured truth.
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