Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital with Nick Land
Other Life
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The Relativity of the Block Chain
The block chain works that it chunks time into these units of simultaneousycall blocks, and then stacks the blocks in this absolutely fixed chronological order. It can establish a model of time em it still is subject to cosmophysic so, you know, if i'm mining bit coin on earth, and some one else is mining bit coin, even somewhere close like mars, then we still have te relativistic problem. The magnitude of the blocks measured in time is quite adequate to maintain this artificial temporality under terrestrial conditions. Were were the block chain to be fanned out deeper into the cosmos, then then the block at the block time would become larger and larger andlarger
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