# Bitcoin Is Poetry The first time I saw Shakespeare's sonnet's I fell in love. I was awestruck by the smelting of English and math. Each line's a beat box of binary iambic pentameter. 1010101010 Building rhythm and rhymes out of metaphors and alliteration. The last lines chiseled by indentation. The first time I saw HTML, I fell in love because it reminded me of poetry. The first time I saw how hashcash was used in #bitcoin, I fell in love with a new kind of poetry.