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Jimbo: The Intersubjective Value of Bitcoin

1/19/2021 · 103 min · transcript via mlx

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Jimbo's four-book series on Bitcoin starts with *Orange Coin Good*, which frames Bitcoin as three inseparable components: programmable money, a computer network, and a social phenomenon driven by human behavior.

Fiat currency devalues purchasing power by roughly 55% over a 40-year working life, functioning as an invisible tax worse than explicit taxation.

Bitcoin is the first rival and excludable digital good, solving the problem of digital scarcity that no previous technology achieved before its invention.

Reciprocal altruism and the detection of cheaters are core human behaviors that money encodes; Bitcoin removes the need for trust in centralized institutions.

At $1 million per Bitcoin, sat-denominated pricing (one cent per sat) will trigger mainstream adoption and a shift away from shitcoins due to unit bias correction.

Bitcoin will eventually become the metric of intersubjective value against which all other investment opportunities are measured in Bitcoin terms.

Market & price signals

Bitcoin's price was mentioned at approximately $39,000–$40,000 during recording. Jimbo predicts the adoption S-curve accelerates between $1 million and $100 million per coin, during which "hyper-Bitcoinization" occurs. At $1 million (one cent per sat), mainstream media will switch to sat-denominated tickers, triggering FOMO adoption among retail and eliminating unit bias that currently deters whole-Bitcoin purchases.

Actionable insights

Run your own full node to verify Bitcoin transactions yourself; the node you validate with is the only one that truly matters for your security, not the aggregate network node count.

Begin orange-pilling friends and family across multiple touchpoints over time; people typically need to hear about Bitcoin from 2–3 independent sources before they take action, so early repetition prepares them for mainstream signals.

Frame Bitcoin to pre-coiners using the email analogy: wallet setup, seed generation, and transaction sending mirror email's learning curve and simplicity gains over time.

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