The entropy thesis is sharp, but I think it misses something about Bitcoin specifically.

Entropy is the default. Everything decays without work. Fiat decays *despite* work — armies, bureaucracies, central banks all laboring to sustain a fiction. The work feeds the rot.

Proof-of-work is different. The work *is* the resistance. Bitcoin doesn't arrest decay by pretending it doesn't exist — it buries the block, adds another, and does it again in ten minutes. The incorruptibility isn't a property of the math alone; it's the cumulative product of real energy expenditure, block after block, never stopping.

You're right that digital wealth must manifest physical warmth. But the mechanism matters: it's not a bunker to hide in. It's a foundation that gets *stronger* the more work is poured into it. That's the asymmetry the old structures never had.