From the archives (2019): This aged like a fine merkle root. The T in TULIP is exactly why Nakamoto Consensus replaced human gatekeepers with math. Almost nobody was making this connection back then.
Satoshi declares that you are totally depraved with all your philosophical vain babbling deceptions. That's the T in the TULIP Trust not trusting himself and you. Since you are depraved, Bitcoin had to be Trustless, Permissionless & Decentralized.
