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Time Standard explores how an honest accounting system based on time is realigning global incentives. Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/xXGroUZAmM2F8dsO5fbF Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1gLdI80eBS2eKUtEbPRbIl Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/time-standard/id1795787407 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TimeStandard
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timestandard 2 weeks ago
Nature implemented the difficulty adjustment before Satoshi did. image Bitcoin behaves like a fixed thermodynamic chamber. Avogadro’s law shows that nature allocates a constant number of energy events per geometric volume, and Bitcoin reflects this principle perfectly. image The Bitcoin network enforces a constant time (block interval/temperature) and constant volume (block size/volume). These two together define Bitcoin’s transaction throughput envelope. This is Bitcoin’s “container.” It does not grow with user demand. Difficulty (pressure) adjusts so that the number of energy events (hashes) per volume remains invariant. As the number of miners increases, the system expands the difficulty so the “pressure” stays constant. In this graph, the steps represent the difficulty epochs applied to Avogadro's Law. image A total energy accounting system requires 3 invariants: 🔹A constant rate of measurement (a clock). 🔹A mechanism that normalizes unequal energy inputs 🔹A way to convert energy expenditure into a single comparable unit. Historically, we have never had all three because: 🔸Currencies inflate 🔸Commodity weights vary 🔸Requirements for external governance or calibration 🔸No system self-calibrates based on energy input Bitcoin changes this. Bitcoin behaves like a natural law, not a human standard.
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timestandard 2 weeks ago
If you put information on a distorted map... You get distorted information. image
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timestandard 3 weeks ago
Three steps to changing our perspective. First, we view the world through our currency. image Then we begin converting our currency to BTC. image Eventually, we stop converting everything into an arbitrary piece of paper and denominate everything in BTC. image
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timestandard 3 weeks ago
Without tying money to time and energy, you end up with a distorted economy divorced from physics, one that can “grow” on paper while actually consuming itself.
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timestandard 2 months ago
The fiat system expands potential consumption while the underlying actual capacity stagnates or decays.
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timestandard 2 months ago
Fuller warned that humanity had confused claims on wealth (property, money, credit) with actual wealth (energy, capability, technological progress). Bitcoin exposes this same distortion.
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timestandard 2 months ago
Fuller understood an individual would publish Bitcoin. Why? Because groups cannot think 💭 Corporations, institutions, and governments are all made of individuals who do the thinking.
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timestandard 2 months ago
“Because debt is a constituent of traditional government, it will be increased to eventual absurdity.” —Buckminster Fuller
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timestandard 3 months ago
"Mankind literally lives inside the frame of measurement [fiat] that needs to be interrogated." —Buckminster Fuller
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timestandard 4 months ago
"People have always believed that when they put their money in the bank, it stayed there. They had no idea it went out on loan within minutes after it came in." —Buckminster Fuller
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timestandard 4 months ago
World Game is the antithesis of World War. "Yesterday's preoccupation with major energy harnessing, primarily for the killing of humans by humans, now can be redirected to intelligent and responsible production of a total-humanity sustaining system." image
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timestandard 4 months ago
"Political pressure was clearly causing the scientists to abandon truth." —Buckminster Fuller
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timestandard 4 months ago
An essential theme in Buckminster Fuller's work is: Liberation from inherited misconceptions—whether in maps, politics, race, or classrooms. Fuller frames education as the process of “decontaminating” thought from obsolete fixations so that humanity can adapt to reality rather than illusions. The necessary pretext for finding clarity was a global and finite time-energy accounting system, aka the Bitcoin network.
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timestandard 4 months ago
"I am not trying to imitate nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using." —Buckminster Fuller
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timestandard 5 months ago
You can’t spend money, wealth, or energy. You can only spend time. "The only thing that's expendable is what we do with our time-all the rest is cumulative." —Buckminster Fuller The more I think about it, I’ve come to realize Bucky was right.
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timestandard 5 months ago
A few great minds sensed there was more to Buckminster Fuller’s work than meets the eye. "I've always felt that those dymaxion gadgets—cars, houses, maps, etc.—were only incidental to what you really are interested in. Could you tell me what your work is?" —Dr. Jonas Salk But they could not put their finger on it because they did not understand Bitcoin. Today, we have the necessary tools and technology (Bitcoin) to understand one of the greatest minds of the last century.
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timestandard 5 months ago
Study Bitcoin. "We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think." —Buckminster Fuller
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timestandard 5 months ago
“Because debt is a constituent of traditional government, it will be increased to eventual absurdity.” —Buckminster Fuller