Love your way of putting this, very apt, thanks for posting.

This might not be the easiest reading, compared with Watership Down, but it is the solution, as far as I can see as a Systems Engineer, looking at the problem, and writing about it in Medium for almost five years, I wish I had even half of your flair for making an interesting story:

https://eric-bott.medium.com/could-bitcoin-be-a-kardashev-hinge-b5d92df02795