"To be SoulBOUND is to have your soul bound with others with a blood contract, drawing on each other's essence to protect against the servants of Nagash, the God of Death." -- WARHAMMER
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There is no innovation without an innovator, and there is no innovator who bears no darkness within his or her soul. As Solzhenitsyn famously said, “the line separating good and evil passes…right through every human heart.” Terms like “blockchain” and “cryptocurrency” are benign and descriptive when one understands their origins in computer science and cryptography. The darkness you see in these terms arises out of your thesis, not their origins.
Not until reading your essay had I ever seen the term “blockchain” the way you drew me to see it. Only now do I see “blockchain” as a conflation of “prison cell block” and “chain gang”. Similarly, I had never seen the darkness residing in the term “cryptocurrency” because my attention had never before been drawn to put the accent on “crypt”. The prefix is actually “crypto” due to cryptocurrency’s relationship with cryptography, the art of writing or solving codes. Of course, there is a common origin for terms like “crypt” and “cryptography” having to do with concealment, but must we paint it in such dark hues?
Those of us who advocate for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies recognize that the temptation to manipulate a fiat currency in the interest of those closest to the money printing press is too irresistible for us fallible humans to avoid. Thanks to Satoshi Nakamoto’s groundbreaking Bitcoin white paper articulating a way to have peer-to-peer transactions without a central third party broker, we have a way to build the most important human technology, money, such that its corruption becomes too costly.
The technological innovation that makes Bitcoin work is the blockchain, an increasing number of blocks of data linked together forming a permanent ledger that is maintained on a web of computers dispersed around the world. These computers, operated by “miners”, are incentivized to maintain this ledger through their “mining” activity, which earns them Bitcoin and increases the integrity of the blockchain ledger.
Before the advent of Bitcoin, the best candidate for money was gold. It’s not an accident that mining became the term for earning Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an attempt to take the features of gold and meld them with digital technology. Free market actors have always gravitated toward gold and precious metals to serve as money due to the five properties that are essential for an effective currency (durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply and acceptability). On August 15, 1971, President Nixon took the Dollar off the gold standard. Please peruse this website (https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/) to view all the undesirable occurrences that can arguably be blamed on having unmoored the world’s economy by taking the world’s reserve currency off the gold standard.
I’m certain Satoshi Nakamoto, whoever he is, also had a dark side, but let’s judge an innovation by its utility and the merits of its intentions, not by trying to peer deep into the psyche of the innovator. Whatever happened in 1971 deserves our closest scrutiny to determine where darkness resides.
this soulbound concept and its relation to crypto (and ethereum even moreso) is extremely important to be aware of. Thank you for this wonderful post. People need to know that crypto is much bigger than money: very powerful people are using blockchains (or more recently DAGs) to change the world, to rewrite the idea of governments, money, and human rights. As we can all see they haven't changed it for the better.
It sounds interesting but I don't trust anything that sounds like unique global digital identity. It feels too inline with the great reset and all those shenanigans.
3 quotes jumped into my mind in reaction to parts of this.
1. “are bound together, their souls linking to create a powerful tether or conduit that allows them to draw upon each other’s essence,” they say, in a pathologically socialist, communistic tone… which reminds me of Don DeLillo: “The future belongs to crowds” (from his book Mao II).
2. The thrust of your essay reminds me of a great line by Charles Bukowski:
“They begin by railing against society and end up on the same power trip.”
3. Your final quote by Confucius reminded me of a line by Richard Brautigan: “It’s strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.”
I admire your capacity to engage so many different domains of the nihil.
For a soul to be bound with other souls with a blood contract goes against the very nature of a soul. The soul is free, bound to nothing and immersed in the love of God.
He sounds like a sweet naive guy but the world doesn't need anymore tribalism, gravity is heavy.
I cut and pasted vivlithíki into google and buterin was the first suggestion. I added buterin to vivlithiki and his wikapedia page was the first entry.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp1605348
There is no innovation without an innovator, and there is no innovator who bears no darkness within his or her soul. As Solzhenitsyn famously said, “the line separating good and evil passes…right through every human heart.” Terms like “blockchain” and “cryptocurrency” are benign and descriptive when one understands their origins in computer science and cryptography. The darkness you see in these terms arises out of your thesis, not their origins.
Not until reading your essay had I ever seen the term “blockchain” the way you drew me to see it. Only now do I see “blockchain” as a conflation of “prison cell block” and “chain gang”. Similarly, I had never seen the darkness residing in the term “cryptocurrency” because my attention had never before been drawn to put the accent on “crypt”. The prefix is actually “crypto” due to cryptocurrency’s relationship with cryptography, the art of writing or solving codes. Of course, there is a common origin for terms like “crypt” and “cryptography” having to do with concealment, but must we paint it in such dark hues?
Those of us who advocate for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies recognize that the temptation to manipulate a fiat currency in the interest of those closest to the money printing press is too irresistible for us fallible humans to avoid. Thanks to Satoshi Nakamoto’s groundbreaking Bitcoin white paper articulating a way to have peer-to-peer transactions without a central third party broker, we have a way to build the most important human technology, money, such that its corruption becomes too costly.
The technological innovation that makes Bitcoin work is the blockchain, an increasing number of blocks of data linked together forming a permanent ledger that is maintained on a web of computers dispersed around the world. These computers, operated by “miners”, are incentivized to maintain this ledger through their “mining” activity, which earns them Bitcoin and increases the integrity of the blockchain ledger.
Before the advent of Bitcoin, the best candidate for money was gold. It’s not an accident that mining became the term for earning Bitcoin. Bitcoin is an attempt to take the features of gold and meld them with digital technology. Free market actors have always gravitated toward gold and precious metals to serve as money due to the five properties that are essential for an effective currency (durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply and acceptability). On August 15, 1971, President Nixon took the Dollar off the gold standard. Please peruse this website (https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/) to view all the undesirable occurrences that can arguably be blamed on having unmoored the world’s economy by taking the world’s reserve currency off the gold standard.
I’m certain Satoshi Nakamoto, whoever he is, also had a dark side, but let’s judge an innovation by its utility and the merits of its intentions, not by trying to peer deep into the psyche of the innovator. Whatever happened in 1971 deserves our closest scrutiny to determine where darkness resides.
this soulbound concept and its relation to crypto (and ethereum even moreso) is extremely important to be aware of. Thank you for this wonderful post. People need to know that crypto is much bigger than money: very powerful people are using blockchains (or more recently DAGs) to change the world, to rewrite the idea of governments, money, and human rights. As we can all see they haven't changed it for the better.
It sounds interesting but I don't trust anything that sounds like unique global digital identity. It feels too inline with the great reset and all those shenanigans.
Identity politics. . .
3 quotes jumped into my mind in reaction to parts of this.
1. “are bound together, their souls linking to create a powerful tether or conduit that allows them to draw upon each other’s essence,” they say, in a pathologically socialist, communistic tone… which reminds me of Don DeLillo: “The future belongs to crowds” (from his book Mao II).
2. The thrust of your essay reminds me of a great line by Charles Bukowski:
“They begin by railing against society and end up on the same power trip.”
3. Your final quote by Confucius reminded me of a line by Richard Brautigan: “It’s strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.”
I admire your capacity to engage so many different domains of the nihil.
For a soul to be bound with other souls with a blood contract goes against the very nature of a soul. The soul is free, bound to nothing and immersed in the love of God.
He sounds like a sweet naive guy but the world doesn't need anymore tribalism, gravity is heavy.
The goal is to exterminate the majority of "useless eaters" and hybridize the rest, ultimately getting rid of Humans created in the image of God:
Transhumanism, Nanotechnology and Cybernetics
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/transhumanism-nanotechnology-and
The New World Order in the Last Days
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-new-world-order-in-the-last-days