The idea that Bitcoin was discovered and that one will discover the next Bitcoin is an interesting framing of discovery, not creation. It's proof of work plus the difficulty adjustment enables all of the properties that Jack just outlined. That's why we're able to achieve settlement finality on a block-by-block basis. And that's why the decisions that, from a design perspective, that Satoshi made around what pieces of the Bitcoin ecosystem and software project are endogenous vs. exogenous.

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