- Bitcoin is a simple protocol that does a job.
- One could argue that expanding the protocol would make a better protocol. The Bitcoin community has not followed these arguments to their logical conclusions, but instead kept the protocol simple. The reluctance of the Bitcoin community to change Bitcoin is one of its core strengths
- Looking at the natural world, the patterns that make up the lower levels, are simple, yet everywhere.
- Our brains are made up of simple cells that are connected. High-level simplicity can emerge from low-level complexity.
- Once a simple pattern (where a pattern embodies an explanation) with enough reach is found, systems built out of simple patterns emerge.
- Simple patterns have fewer failure modes.