Are we using bitcoin? Or is bitcoin using us?

A nice analog is wheat.

Wheat is the most successful plant of all time because it convinced humans to propagate it everywhere.

Are humans growing wheat? Or is wheat growing humans?

Bitcoin doesn’t have the ability to interact with the analog world, upgrade its code, or market itself.

Instead, it convinces humans to do its bidding.

In a loosely defined way, Humans are an extended phenotype of bitcoin.

Maybe humans are simply a bridge species designed to nurture bitcoin through adolescence.

We design sufficiently powerful AI which will replace human bitcoin developers.

Homo sapien fate = either merge with machines or become obsolete.