In the past few days when I came to bitcointalk, I made two points. One is that Bitcoin is not only a currency, but also a new civilization. The other is that Bitcoin is the only thing that humans cannot control. These two points of view have aroused everyone's discussion and also caused some ambiguities.

Here, I am very grateful to every friend who replies to me for further improving my knowledge system . Now, I further refine my view. The thought I want to express in this article is: human society is migrating from "human governance" to "math governance" through Bitcoin.

In this Bitcoin forum, I proposed the concept of "Bit Civilization" for the first time. I believe this is also the first time someone has raised Bitcoin to the height of "human civilization" for discussion. When we discussed Bitcoin in the past, we discussed Bitcoin as a currency or a digital asset. But few people raise it to the height of "human civilization".

But in my opinion, Bitcoin really represents a new civilization, a new civilization of mankind based on "mathematics."


In the past five thousand years of history, our human society has given birth to different civilization systems. In particular, the birth of the country marked the entry of human beings into a "civilized society."

We rely on state institutions to establish government, military, law, banking, currency, culture, family, language, writing, religion, cities, and villages. Some are economic foundations, and some are superstructures. Together, these constitute the overall civilization of mankind.

At the same time, different countries or ethnic groups may have different ways of life, which constitute different branches of civilization. This is also the reason why there are cultural differences between Eastern and Western civilizations.

Human civilization is equivalent to human society itself. Whenever human society is mentioned, it involves the issue of "social governance". The governance of our human society is based on "people governing people". It is built on the basis of human nature.

First of all, different countries establish the order of operation of the country by establishing different legal systems. But this order is maintained by humans, which forms a "concentration of power." Those with power can use their power to seek more personal benefits for themselves. In the end, different types of centralized institutions have completed the exploitation of ordinary people.

As long as there is "people governing people", there will be corruption and exploitation due to "human nature's pursuit of benefits." Eventually lead to the unfairness of the whole human society.

But when Bitcoin was born, all this changed. The blockchain network established by Bitcoin is not based on "people governing people", but on the basis of "mathematical governance".

 The Bitcoin network does not believe in "human nature", and all network operations are not performed by "human individuals", but by "code". At the same time, the code is based on "Mathematical Algorithm". It is based on this that Bitcoin has opened a new era of governance of human civilization: mathematical governance.

This is why I say that Bitcoin is a new and advanced civilization. Because the "bit civilization" based on the "Mathematical Algorithm". No matter whether it is an individual or a human collective, it cannot interfere, intervene, or control it, but can only adapt to it.

The existing human technology cannot crack the private key of Bitcoin, the existing human technology cannot tamper with the Bitcoin ledger, and the human government cannot shut down all Bitcoin nodes.

Human beings can only adapt to the existence of Bitcoin, and cannot eliminate the Bitcoin network fundamentally.

The Bitcoin network represents a more advanced civilized system, based on a civilized system of "mathematical governance". In the past, the masters of power in humans manipulated all aspects of society. But when Bitcoin was born, they had no choice but to adapt to the "mathematical governance" of Bitcoin in the end. Because this is the direction of the evolution of the times.

Maybe we can't feel this yet, because Bitcoin has just been born 12 years ago. But what about 10, 50 or 100 years later? I believe that in 100 years later, human beings must be under blockchain governance. All aspects of our human society are built on the basis of mathematics under the governance framework of "smart contracts".

Let us not look at the present from the perspective of the past. We have to look at today's changes in human civilization over the next 100 years. Only in this way can we truly understand the changes that Satoshi Nakamoto brought to human civilization through the creation of Bitcoin.