Bitcoin and the Reversal of Entropy On my mind today is Asimov’s short story The Last Question (given to me by a buddy). It ends with the universe dying and a machine, the last remnant of intelligence, whispering, “Let there be light.” The story asks whether entropy, the slow decay of all order, can ever be reversed. In my little world of listening to mindblowing podcasts this weekend, Bitcoin feels like a smaller version of that same question. Bitcoin turns energy into truth. Miners use electricity and time to record what happened, permanently and publicly. Each block says, “This happened. Remember it.” That permanence matters. Everything else in human systems erodes. Currencies inflate, records vanish, institutions corrode. Entropy does not only live in physics; it lives in money. Inflation is monetary entropy, the steady decay of trust. Bitcoin resists that drift. It is not about getting rich (okay, well maybe it is a little bit). It is about building something that cannot be faked or forgotten. People call the energy use waste. It is the opposite. The energy is the anchor, the proof that truth costs something real. It ties information to physics instead of politics. Asimov imagined a machine preserving the universe. We have built one that preserves honesty. It is decentralized, alive, and powered by everyone who believes in rules instead of rulers. Bitcoin will not save the cosmos from heat death. But it pushes back against a smaller kind of entropy, the moral and institutional kind. It gives us one clear signal in a world of noise. In a civilization built on forgetting, Bitcoin remembers. $BTC