[ExI] This means something...

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
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>…Hal took the idea and ran with it (a very Halish thing to do.)  He was the guy smart enough to figure out how to create a blockchain system for it, enabling a person to own a number…

 

We discussed a blockchain system where anyone could own any number (on that particular blockchain.)  Imagine the value of owning 0 and 1.  Of course it would carry no special privilege other than owning one or owning nothing on a particular blockchain.  My notion is that the value of a number is the product of the scarcity of the number and the prominence of the blockchain which establishes the ownership of that number.

 

In the case of BitCoin, the prominence of that blockchain is enormous, in contrast to competing cryptocurrencies such as DogeCoin.

 

Hal was not only god, he was the real humility champion of the world.  Anyone who knew the man would agree methinks.  He flattered the hell outta me, by treating me as his equal, both online and in person (at Extro3.)  This of course caused me to get an overinflated view of myself, causing me to lose in the Humility Olympics, so it mighta just been part of his sneaky game strategy.  Oh I miss the hell outta that guy.

 

>…I don’t know if he invented it himself, but somebody (I think it was Hal) figured out how to make a hash function with a limited number of solutions, each one of which requires more compute cycles to find…

 

Oh how I wish someone who knows the real answer would explain what happened down there in the LA basin in 2008.  Does anyone here have any insight on that?

 

Regarding Gemini’s crediting me with orbit mechanics stuff, the only notion I will claim of any importance is the insight that a Bradburyan M-Brain would overheat, and that it would help (some) if the energy was directed, making the star into a (very slow) photon rocket.  Robert himself never accepted either idea, no matter how many equations I showed him.  I miss that guy too.

 

spike

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