Cryptocurrency as a Machine Language
Makinde Kehinde Margret@kehindemargretmakinde
7 days ago
Do you know that what you build determines what the world becomes?
I have learnt over the years that most things in the world are neither good nor bad on their own. They are instruments. A hammer can build a home or break a window. The difference is not in the tool but in the intention, discipline, and values of the person holding it.
Cryptocurrency, when stripped of excitement and noise, is best understood this way: it is a machine language. It does not argue or persuade; it executes.
It executes precisely and without emotion what we tell it to.
Machine Languages Do Not Dream; People Do
A machine language does not imagine a future because it has no ethics, fear, or generosity. It simply follows rules. Cryptocurrency, at its nucleus, is a set of instructions that says, 'When this happens, do that forever and without exception.'
That is a powerful thing.
When you create systems that cannot forget, forgive, or adjust unless explicitly told to, you are not merely inventing money; you are encoding behaviour, deciding what is rewarded, punished, or ignored.
In my experience, incentives shape outcomes more reliably than intelligence ever will.
The World Tilts Towards Its Incentives
I have watched markets long enough to know this:
People move toward what pays them.
If a system rewards speed, you get recklessness.
If it rewards opacity, you get manipulation.
If it rewards patience, you get compounding.
Cryptocurrency tilts the world not because it is revolutionary, but because it is highly consistent. Once a rule is written into code, the world must learn to meet it. There are no exceptions for charm, urgency, or good stories.
So the real question is not whether cryptocurrency will change the world.
It already does.
The question is:
What did you tell it to value?
Create From First Principles, Not From Price
I have never invested in something simply because its price was moving upward. Price is what you pay; value is what you get. Machine languages do not care about price; they care about logic.
If you create cryptocurrency systems that exist only to extract, they will extract efficiently. If you design them to bypass trust, they will bypass accountability just as well. Code does not pause to ask whether the outcome is wise.
It executes.
That is why anyone building in this space should spend far more time asking what should exist than what can be monetised quickly.
Long-Term Systems Outperform Clever Ones
The most durable businesses I have known were not clever but clear. They solved real problems, aligned incentives sensibly, and respected the fact that humans are imperfect.
Machine languages magnify whatever assumptions you build into them. If you assume greed, you will scale greed. If you assume cooperation, you can scale trust, but only if you design for it deliberately.
Technology does not remove human nature.
It amplifies it.
So,
What Do You Want in the World?
If cryptocurrency is a machine language, then building with it is an act of authorship. You are writing a sentence the world will be forced to read, again and again.
Do you want a world that rewards:
• Speculation or contribution?
• Speed or resilience?
• Extraction or stewardship?
Because whatever you encode will tilt behaviour in that direction, long after you are gone.
In my view, the best use of any powerful tool is to make good behaviour easier and bad behaviour harder, not the other way around.
Cryptocurrency will not save the world, and it will not destroy it. That responsibility remains exactly where it has always been: with the people who decide what to build.
Machine languages obey.
Markets respond.
The world tilts.
If you are going to create with this pattern, create something you would be proud to see compounded over time.
Because in the end, systems, like investments, reveal their true value not in excitement, but in endurance.
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