By Bitcoin 杂志 - 7 个月前 - 阅读时间：8 分钟
Bitcoin 作为社区建设的基础
Community is crucial and that never has been clearer to me than it was this last month, as wildfires claimed 10,000 hectares of the area around my home, leaving many people with nothing except the clothes they were wearing when they escaped.
在火势最严重的时候，来自葡萄牙各地的消防员正在扑救我们的大火。 千余人、400多辆消防车和14架飞机最终取得了胜利。 我们看着巨大的烟雾，在它燃烧的四个晚上我们都没有睡太多觉，看着接近的橙色光芒照亮了天空。 随之而来的是，现在消防员已经完成了扑灭火龙的英雄任务，社区的力量正在脱颖而出。
Amongst the local small businesses, there is an almost festive atmosphere. Stories of last minute escapes are shared by those affected, damages are compared. Together, we take reckoning of what has been lost and celebrate the small victories over the fire. A home saved here, a family reunited with their livestock and pets there, a house not touched by the flames even though everything around it has burned.
People have poured in from far and wide to volunteer. Donations of food, clothing and household items are piled high against the back wall of a local restaurant and shared out amongst those who need them. Gender roles seem to be falling naturally into place amongst the volunteers, with the men mostly taking the heavy tasks of clearing scorched earth and charred trees to clear the way for people to start rebuilding and the women cooking for the teams of men and the families who have lost their homes. Now, a month on from the fire, the progress is very visible. Fallen roofs have been shovelled up and cleared, structures checked and cleaned in preparation for placing new beams and rebuilding. The melted pipes of irrigation systems have been pulled out of the ground and taken away. Personal possessions have been sifted through and what can be saved has been secured. We have received excellent information sessions on how to go about managing burned land, what to clear, what to leave, how to prevent land erosion and when and how to start replanting. With the first rain of the autumn coming in strong, the first sign of green is already showing again all over the blackened landscape.
A dear friend of mine, herself a dedicated bitcoiner, put it beautifully in a message to me when I told her how overwhelming it is to see people coming together this way. “This is what people do when they govern themselves,” she wrote, “It’s beautiful.”
从来没有说过更真实的话。 我认为我以前从未见过一个社区能够如此顺利地步入正轨。 在一些国家——比如大多数欧洲国家——政府至少在一定程度上仍在运作（有人可能会说，过度运作），许多人似乎与社区失去了联系。 虽然教堂曾经为这种联系提供了基石，但大多数人不再隶属于任何宗教协会，如果你向他们询问他们的社区或“部落”，大多数人都找不到答案。 他们谈论的是一个松散的群体，由同事、运动伙伴、不一定很亲近的朋友以及与他们有着大多是巧合的接近关系的邻居组成。 我们社会的结构现在是一个开放的编织结构，许多人只是通过它而陷入孤立，只靠零星的几根线坚持下去。
从历史和社会学的角度来看，社区的丧失令人深感担忧。 人类并不是为了好玩而形成社区。 我们没有聚在一起，因为与伙伴一起狩猎或管理城堡的城墙更有趣（尽管可能也是如此）。 纵观人类历史，无论时代或地理环境如何，人类都聚集在一起，因为我们在一起总是更安全、更有效、更有能力影响我们的环境以造福于我们，无论是扑救火灾还是敌人袭击或政治越权。 冒着听起来像政治口号的风险，我们在一起确实会变得更强大。
传统上，女性在创建和团结社区方面发挥着至关重要的作用，这主要是因为她们在社会和生物学上都非常有动力这样做——女性对自己和孩子的第一个保护者当然是她的男人——但超越他或在他缺席的情况下，她就是她的丈夫。社区是她的第二道保护线，她在需要时依靠社区获得安全和帮助。 可以令人信服地辩称，社区的崩溃至少在一定程度上造成了各年龄段女性，尤其是北欧和美国年轻一代的抑郁和焦虑统计数字的飙升。 社交媒体似乎复制了一个由成群的追随者组成的社区，但作为替代品根本无法消除它，它只提供多巴胺成瘾，而不是真正的联系。 从心理健康的角度来看，社区的丧失与从历史和社会学的角度来看一样是灾难性的。
显然，不仅仅是女性容易受到这场灾难性经济衰退的影响。 在不同性别中，尽管发达国家大多数人的生活越来越轻松，但有关孤立、抑郁、自杀和成瘾等心理健康状况不佳的统计数据使得令人沮丧的阅读及其发生率越来越高。 缺乏社区给人们的生活留下了如此大的空白，最重要的是缺乏一种意识，即他们对比个人福祉更大的事业做出了贡献。 这也许很天真，但我不禁感到，积极建立和刺激当地社区的发展可以为我们的集体福祉带来难以置信的恢复潜力。
Which is just one of the reasons that it is so incredibly heartening to see a community here in full strength, drawing together to support and provide for one another, each member contributing what they have to offer. For some it’s money, which is being channelled straight into providing emergency relief or donated to the people whose livelihood was dependent upon their home. For others, it’s muscle and machine power, in chainsawing, clearing and cleaning. A few people have dedicated their time to coordinating the influx of volunteers. For those of us who have no idea how to wield a chainsaw and whose lack of muscle power threatens to make us more of a hindrance than a help on the front line of the clear up, it’s kitchen duty, providing food for those working and those in need. That community is vital on all the levels of Maslow’s pyramid of human needs is clearly exemplified in the wake of our fire.
但是，如何在其他地方重新引入社区的种子和根源呢？这些地方在生活的各个方面都失去了共同的信仰和竞争性的社会关系，并且已经失去了如此之久？ 作为个人和家庭，我们能否促进这种增长？
As a fellow bitcoiner, I think you know what I would propose. Besides its myriad other aspects, Bitcoin provides a unique foundation for community. We’ve all experienced it if we have attended Bitcoin events; I’d bet my bottom dollar (if either you or I still believed in the value of the dollar) that you had more in common with the person you had a five minute chat with in the queue of the bathroom at the Bitcoin conference than you do with your co-workers, who you have known and worked with for years.
Bitcoin is about shared values and a shared knowledge that the system we are living under just doesn’t work. Its capacity to lay the foundation for community (not to mention the rest of its cornucopia of economic, technical, social and philosophical gifts) is second to none. A community based around Bitcoin is a whole new and unique model which has the potential to fill the void which other failed (fiat) models of community have left.
Those of us who choose to already experience some of this Bitcoin community through Telegram, Twitter and Nostr. Amongst other Bitcoiners, we can, to put it simply, just go ahead and skip the small talk. Mostly, we’re all aware of the role governments, big pharma, mainstream media and the food giants play. Once these issues are no longer a topic of conversation, it’s beautiful to watch what emerges – we’re all pretty much in agreement about what has broadly gone wrong in the past so we tend to focus on the future. These conversations are incredibly valuable. I, for one, love the thought provoking contact and the sense of online community – but there’s the danger that those online communities and the people with whom I socialize and the businesses from whom I buy the goods I need in daily life can feel like two separate worlds. It takes some steps to bring those two worlds together but I do feel that they are very much worth taking. Shared values make for strong bonds and as you build a Bitcoin community around you, you get to experience the luxury of this.
Delivering regular Bitcoin education sessions and watching as businesses around me start to accept Bitcoin is, for me, planting the seeds of a whole extra layer of community. It could be said that we have an obligation – not only to ourselves and our families, but to our communities, to seed and foster the growth of new, Bitcoin based communities. Doing so will bring us huge benefits. Not only will we be able to transact and save in real money amongst ourselves, building parallel economies which are uncensorable and tailor made to fit our own needs (because we are incentivized to orange pill businesses we most want to buy from), we will have access to the social, philosophical and even moral benefits that being part of a true community brings and which most of us have never yet fully experienced.
能够 Bitcoin lead us back to a golden age of community, where all of us can experience these benefits? I think the answer is that it probably can. Some of the green shoots of it can already be seen growing out of the ash left by the collapse of fiat models of community. So if I may be so bold as to offer you some advice – go out there to that shop, restaurant or bar you go to often and say those magic words: “Do you accept Bitcoin 然而？”
这是 Holly Young 的客座帖子。 所表达的观点完全是他们自己的观点，并不一定反映BTC Inc或 Bitcoin 杂志。
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