The current state of things

The fact there is a powerful group of people who want to suppress softwar and Bitcoin generally just shows how fucking sick and dysfunctional our species is.. the species that operates on a Bitcoin standard are not going to be sapiens... they will be our evolutionary descendants.

#Bitcoin is a network state consisting of an army (miners), legislators (nodes), and the general population (people who own bitcoin) all in one brilliant protocol... but it's also one other thing... it's also a perpetual state of non-lethal war between the miners. This last point is the most profound and least understood part of the system.

Until Satoshi opened the portal, cyberspace had been a domain of abstract power competition. With #Bitcoin, Satoshi chained cyberspace to physical reality. This masterstroke of computer science and engineering will be looked back upon by our descendants as an innovation so fundamental that its significance is ranked as high or higher than agriculture.

#Bitcoin more closely attaches a persons perception and sense of time to reality. Where the person who leans towards abstract power wants to manipulate, distort, and memory-hole you. The person who leans towards physical power wants to tie everyone's perception of time to reality.

#Zapathon me some private messages

GM bots and or trolls.

GM bots and trolls.

As capital flows into a system, information is flowing into a database, the more information that flows into the database, the more efficient that database becomes. As the database becomes more efficient the database will become less volatile when viewed from the broken system. The BTC/USD price pair volatility is thus a measurement of the inefficiency of the broken system, not the new paradigm.

GM unrealistic, thermodynamically unrestricted, infinitely expanding state-space full of bots and trolls. 👋

#Bitcoin "Proof-of-work protocols developed by computer engineers like Adam Back may represent the discovery of an externally stored programming technique that simultaneously changes the physical state of the environment outside of our computers as well as the physical state of the environment inside our computers, giving computer programmers a way to program our virtual environment and physical environment simultaneously and then link them together. With this capability, the abstractions we use in cyberspace start to reshape our surrounding physical environment and then import the real-world physical properties of our surrounding environment (properties like physical cost, physical scarcity, and physical decentralization) into cyberspace. It sounds extraordinary, but all that it takes to achieve this is for people to simply build the infrastructure needed to convert watts into bits, which is precisely what the Bitcoin network is doing." - Jason Lowery

#Bitcoin #MoreThanMoney "Just like the term “cloud” hides critical information about where bits of information are being physically stored, the use of object-oriented software abstractions like “coin” for proof-of-work protocols disguises the fact that the bits of information that are being metaphorically described as a “coin” represent state changes occurring outside of our computers, not inside of them. Because people don’t understand computer theory and they aren’t paying attention to the bottom of the tech stack, they overlook highly unique properties of proof-ofwork protocols which have a potential to change the game of cyber security or even change how humans perceive cyberspace." - Jason Lowery

"Physical cost function protocols (a.k.a. proof-of-work protocols) are deceptively simple: they convert watts to bits. When people utilize computing networks like the Bitcoin network, they take watts as their input and convert them into proofs-of-watts as their output, which are then metaphorically described as some type of abstract object. Lost in the metaphors, computer and software engineers aren’t taking the time to consider the major technical differences in the underlying physics, despite how observably different it is. Why do these major technical differences go undetected? The author hypothesizes that it could be because proof-of-work represents an unprecedented approach to computing that software engineers aren’t recognizing yet because they have effectively been trained by their industry best practices to ignore what’s happening under the hood of their software by abstracting it away." - Jason Lowery

#Bitcoin #RealWorldDecentralization "When people normally refer to an “object” instantiated by ordinary software, they are applying abstract and symbolic meaning to transistor state changes inside a computer using machine code to convert them to machine readable bits of information. These “objects” do not physically exist; people have arbitrarily choosen to describe the complex emergent behavior of their computer programs using metaphors like “objects” (e.g. folder, trash can, cloud, string) to make it easier for other people to understand the intended functionality and design of their computer programs. In other words, there is no spoon. All that physically exists is the physically unrestricted and infinitely expanding state space of countless state machines plugged together. Countless transistors are added together on circuit boards, and the combined state of those transistors is what we abstract as so-called “objects.” But underneath the metaphor is nothing but people converting transistor state changes to bits of information using a new type of symbolically and syntactically complex language. Physical cost function protocols (a.k.a. proof-of-work protocols) like Bitcoin work differently. When people describe the real-world physical cost of solving a physical cost function protocol as if it were a quantifiable object (e.g. a proof, receipt, stamp, coin, or token), they’re using abstraction to describe a real, meaningful, physically scarce, physically constrained, thermodynamically restricted, path-dependent, and irrevocable quantity of physical power drawn out of shared objective physical reality. Therefore, whereas ordinary computer programs can only present the illusion of physical cost, physical cost function protocols like Bitcoin produce real-world physical cost. Whereas ordinary computer programs can only present the illusion of scarcity and decentralization, Bitcoin produces real-world scarcity and decentralization. This is possible because the underlying physical state-changing mechanism (i.e. massive quantities of watts) being converted into bits is, itself, physically real, physically scarce, and physically decentralized. You know that bits of information created by large quantities of physical power are real, scarce, and decentralized because power itself is real, scarce, and decentralized." - Jason Lowery This is one of my favorite quotes from the chapter where he completely dismantles proof-of-stake systems.

"If people were to build a planetary-scale computer like the one described here and plug it into the internet, this could not only usher in new approaches to cyber security, but it could also dramatically change humanity’s approach to national strategic security, particularly how it secures information and enforces policies and social contracts against exploitation." - Jason Lowery

“…power is almost everything. It doesn’t matter what you think is right; it matters what you can demonstrate and enforce is right.” - Lyn Alden

Good afternoon, "Using some type of new digital-age, physical power projection tactic, people will be empowered to compete for egalitarian access to, and control over, bits of information passed across cyberspace. This new form of electrocyber warfighting will allow the population to keep itself systemically secure against exploitation from an abusive ruling class by giving them the ability to impose unlimited amounts of severe physical costs on their oppressors. An open-source electro-cyber warfighting protocol would allow people to keep themselves physically secure in cyberspace (i.e. virtual reality) using the same technique they already use to keep themselves physically secure in objective reality: by making it impossible to justify the physical cost (in watts) of attacking them." - Jason Lowery

Good Morning, "The emergence of cyberspace could represent something as significant to human cultural evolution as the discovery of agriculture and the corresponding abstract power hierarchies established to govern agricultural resources. Cyberspace is a globally-adopted belief system that is radically transforming the way society organizes itself, in much the same way that agrarian abstract power hierarchies did. Just as agrarian society led to the formation of empires, so too does cyberspace appear to be leading to the formation of cyber empires, complete with the threat of oppressive rulers rising to the top of the hierarchy. If history repeats, then the inevitable next step for digital-age society after the emergence of software (i.e. computer-generated abstract power) is the emergence of softwar (i.e. computer-generated physical power) to physically dismantle, decentralize, rebalance, and constrain it." - Jason Lowery

GM "Sapiens have so much thinking power and are so inclined to believe imaginary things are real, that they behave unlike any other animal on Earth. They strongly and passionately believe in things they have never seen, smelled, heard, tasted, or touched. They act, react, and show extreme favoritism towards symbols, and operate either oblivious to or consciously unconcerned with the difference between abstract things and physical things. They will respond to stimuli which exist nowhere except within their imagination, more often and far more passionately than information received by their sensory inputs from physically objective reality. They will ignore their experiential knowledge altogether and act strictly according to symbolic knowledge, often not even aware of the fact that they’re doing it." - Jason Lowery

Abstract power is weak af GN