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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @dontforgetthekeys 10 Nov \ on: Bitcoin Calendar Definition bitdevs
I've spent a lot of blocks thinking about a timechain clock/calendar. It took me down a deep hole of rethinking how we perceive time. I love the idea of thinking in blocks and what that opens up for us about time. So I was excited to see this post in my feed. You had me up until the calendar sync and changing how bitcoin works. Why do we need bitcoin to be a clock when it's a ledger with it's own time?
I'm not 100% sure if we need it or not, that's part of the discussion. I am immensely curious what reasons you would offer against it, besides not wanting to change Bitcoin unnecessarily.
As for my reasoning, it is widespread knowledge that the seasons are connected to economic activity, which seems to be a pretty strong justification (i.e. economic incentive) for the alignment. For a counter-example, what business accounting office would ever want to adopt something like the Muslim calendar that rolls through the tropical year? Q4 would never have it's proper meaning in such a calendar.
Besides the economic incentive, we humans have a natural seasonal "sense" for time, and it will always be more natural to earthlings to do their scheduling and accounting accordingly.
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