Just like how the platypus was initially dismissed by leading scientists as a fraud and hoax because of its unique features that crossed established boundaries, Bitcoin is prematurely dismissed by today’s high priests of finance.
The platypus is perhaps the most bizarre creature on the planet. It’s a venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal. Those things simply aren’t supposed to go together.
In fact, when leading scientists first read accounts of the platypus, they dismissed it as a joke—and for good reason: the platypus is a seemingly impossible animal that combines features from three different animal classes and four different animal orders.
Enjoying the joke, the scientists asked the perpetrators of the seemingly-fraudulent platypus scheme to humor them with a sketch of the animal—the product of which was even funnier than imagined.
Even after the initial inspection of the physical specimen, the conclusion was the same: “The first preserved platypus body was thought to have been a fake, made of several animals sewn together, when it was first looked at by scientists.” [1]
Only upon the most careful and minute examination did some scientists finally come to believe the creature was real. Still, two decades after the platypus was confirmed, leading anatomists like Robert Knox still doubted the authenticity of the “freak imposture” which “the scientific [community] felt inclined to class this rare production of nature with eastern mermaids and others works of art”[2].
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