Rigs Are From Mars, Nodes Are From Venus: Bitcoin, Hypergamy, and the Forging of Civilization (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798196845451)

What if civilization isn't breaking-it's just switching operating systems?

Hannah Pralle sees an unusual connection: Bitcoin isn't just digital money, it's a new grammar for primal constraint; one that teaches us how to build lasting things again. In this audacious blend of memoir, social philosophy, and crypto-cultural criticism, she argues that our ancient mating strategies, our relationship with time, and our definitions of value are all getting a hard reboot.

From "mouse utopia" to proof-of-work, from hypergamy to hard scarcity, Pralle weaves together evolutionary psychology, Austrian economics, and her own journey discovering the Bitcoin protocol is actually a tunnel between disciplines. What emerges is a startlingly original theory: the same forces that drive sexual selection are now driving technological selection-and why understanding this might be the key to building durable incentive structure, even in cyberspace.

Irreverent, insightful, and impossible to categorize, Rigs Are From Mars, Nodes Are From Venus is the book that explains why everything feels so crazy right now-and what we can do about it.