./bitzine --issue 006 MEMETICS Memes are ideas that can replicate and evolve. Memetics dates from the 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, and it is the study of how ideas spread. "Just as genes spread themselves by leaping from body to body, generation after generation, via sperms or eggs, some memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain." Memes can be simple units like catch-phrases, or complex systems of thought like philosophical, religious, or money systems. In Bitcoin we are interested in information and how it is produced, propagated, and increased. Memes help us spread Bitcoin's strength by propagating information like never before. There's no coming back. The memes are leaping peer to peer. The memepool has a new floor. $ EXiT