10 sats \ 6 replies \ @PRA3S3NT1A 23 Aug 2023 \ on: Meditation on a Jack Maller quote bitcoin
I don't think anything is forever except energy and consciousness 🌅
Year-round, I agree with you. That part troubled me for the same reason.
Forever, one heck of a long time (beyond all our comprehension).
I guess we shouldn't take the quote too literally - the quote wouldn't have the same impact if it put 10,000 years instead.
energy and consciousness
On further reflection on your reply, isn't Bitcoin often seen as energy though..?
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Agree !
Everything is energy.
Bitcoin also represents digital energy. However what is very interesting about bitcoin is that it has no form in the psychical world. Therefore, it is not subject to "death". Because everything that has a psychical representation in the outer world will be dead. Time is the force that kills everything that has form. Bitcoin is the first thing that can exist as formless in a world full of forms.
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I'd like to challenge your definition of physicality. The components of Bitcoin have physical representations as the configuration of memory storage devices across the world and all the brains who recognize the data and concept of Bitcoin and its mechanics. Since matter can neither be created nor destroyed, the capacity of information in the world can neither be created or destroyed, just realized or unrealized.
Theoretically matter can be rearranged into worlds where our current consciousness is a random configuration of matter that can devolve at any second (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain). The interesting thing about humans is our ability to search for and find relevant pieces of information that benefit us rather than having to enumerate the infinitely available possibilities in the style of The Library of Babel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel)
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I see your point and I agree partly especially with the "realised and unrealised" statement.
I understand your comment and yes we need devices such as storage to bring bitcoin on this world.
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That last bit is something that my head can't take in right now.
I'll have to give it some time to let that sink in...
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