On January 3, 2009, an anonymous computer programmer mined the first Bitcoin block. Every ~10 minutes since, a new block of transactions are cryptographically chained to the last with electricity. The record has remained perfectly in sync and secure with 930,775 blocks now mined.
While many discuss UBI, AI data contribution credits and many other hare brained schemes, I can’t help but wonder why they can’t just build a bitcoin position and escape the matrix.
My new favorite part of BitCoin?
It functions as the BS meter on quantum computer marketing.
Current chip manufacturing advances are no longer exponential. We struggle with 10-15% improvements now. Only putting a hypothetical qAuNtuM computer further away.
If one is to use the term “First Nations” or “Indigenous Peoples” or “Native Americans” in the Americas and Antipodes, then, in fairness, it should also apply to English, French, Spanish and other such peoples in Europe