Not sure I've seen this analogy anywhere, but I've got a good explanation to friends of why it's so hard to copy or change Bitcoin:
Bitcoin is like how modern society thinks of 24hr time 🕰️ (@npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc alludes to this in "Bitcoin is time"):
- We all agree on the protocal of 24 hours, minutes, seconds etc.
- International Atomic Time is the main reference point that can be independently verified.
- It's relatively easy to check whether other clocks are cheating because we all run our own time nodes (quartz or the sun, or even Bitcoin).
- To change this protocal or shift it in some way would be so massively difficult, that it just doesn't happen. It's only possible if the vast majority of people who control devices agree.
- Yes you can try and claim your own time standard as the real one, but really there is no second best.
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