BITCOIN IS HUMAN NATURE w/ Jesse Myers

— A genetic mutation occurring 160,000–300,000 years ago produced the TKTL1 protein in Homo sapiens, overdeveloping brain regions responsible for abstract thought and enabling an obsession with scarce collectibles.

— Shell bead jewelry, dating back 142,000 years, represents early proto-money and served as an efficiency multiplier that allowed inter-tribal trade and cooperation beyond single-tribe kinship groups.

— Homo sapiens displaced Neanderthals within 3,000–5,000 years of arriving in Europe by achieving 10× population density, likely enabled by money-based coordination rather than superior hunting or tool-making.

— Dunbar's number (the ~150-person tribal limit) may have been breached by money, which eliminated the need to track personal debts across thousands of relationship pairs and enabled larger coordinated societies.

— A 142,000-year process of "monetary Darwinism" progressively favored scarcer assets—from shells to glass beads to gold—culminating in Bitcoin as absolute digital scarcity.

— Bitcoin represents the culmination of a species-level drive hardwired into human DNA; adoption follows a multi-decade S-curve across collectible, store-of-value, medium-of-exchange, and unit-of-account functions.

— Recognize that Bitcoin adoption is exponential but not sudden; the world is still in the early innovator phase (~0.5% adoption) and will gradually move through the standard adoption bell curve over 10–20 years.

— Frame Bitcoin within your personal narrative as a savings technology and store of value rather than speculation, and track wealth in Bitcoin terms (sats) rather than fiat to align with maximalist thinking and long-term conviction.

— Engage with foundational texts like Nick Szabo's "Shelling Out" and Austrian economics to understand why scarce commodities naturally monetize, reinforcing the logical inevitability of Bitcoin over fiat systems.