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"Mathematics is the language of the universe."
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"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe..."
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--Nicholas Copernicus
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--Nicholas Copernicus
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I fell in love with word-smithing in the eleventh grade after reading Shakespeare's Sonnets because Iambic pentameter is the edge effect where the languages of Mathetmatics and English meet and I thought this was the coolest thing in the world. This inspired me to write my own Sonnets. I even gave one to my hopeless crush. She wasn't as impressed, but in retrospect, poetry was my first love.
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I fell in love with word-smithing in the eleventh grade after reading Shakespeare's Sonnets because Iambic pentameter is the edge effect where the languages of Mathetmatics and English meet and I thought this was the coolest thing in the world. This inspired me to write my own Sonnets. I even gave one to my hopeless crush. She wasn't as impressed, but in retrospect, poetry was my first love.
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ I had some flings with fiction, a few blogs, and in 2014 fell in love with a you
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Proof Of Poetry
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## Proof Of Poetry
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Adam Back discovered hashcash. Satoshi cited this in the White paper, as noted above. Despite it's name, hashcash was not a "cryptocurrency." It would be more accurate to describe it as a digital stamp. Stamps have a cost, of course, and so does hashcash. We can't hand a piece of paper with a portrait of some dude wearing a wig, of course. We must pay for electronic stamps with the only resource computers can use, energy. This makes energy, or electricity rather, currency for computers. Therefore, you must pay for the hashcash stamp with electricity. As everyone who has been shocked by their electricity bill in the summer knows, electricity has a real cost. The beauty of hash cash is you wouldn't notice a difference on your electric bill if you sent a dozen emails a month. If you spammed the whole Word Wide Web with a chain-letter, chances are you'll cuss out your electric bill. Hashcash is a stamp you pay for with computational power, which requires your computer to get paid with electricity.
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Adam Back discovered hashcash. Satoshi cited this in the White paper, as noted above. Despite it's name, hashcash was not a "cryptocurrency." It would be more accurate to describe it as a digital stamp. Stamps have a cost, of course, and so does hashcash. We can't hand a piece of paper with a portrait of some dude wearing a wig, of course. We must pay for electronic stamps with the only resource computers can use, energy. This makes energy, or electricity rather, currency for computers. Therefore, you must pay for the hashcash stamp with electricity. As everyone who has been shocked by their electricity bill in the summer knows, electricity has a real cost. The beauty of hash cash is you wouldn't notice a difference on your electric bill if you sent a dozen emails a month. If you spammed the whole Word Wide Web with a chain-letter, chances are you'll cuss out your electric bill. Hashcash is a stamp you pay for with computational power, which requires your computer to get paid with electricity.
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We see a totally different 64 character combination. This is how data is verified in Cyberseurity, and bitcoin is no different which should not suprise anyone since SHA256 is also used in Cybersecurity. To change the math requires changing every single one of these transactions since January 3rd, 2009. How bad would your electric bill need to be to accomplish this? I don't know, but It's not likely to happen since honesest miners are rewarded with fees, These fees are like tribute transactions must pay to get out of purgatory, Some transactions pay more, some try to pay less. The miners are incintivized to let the more expensive transactions to go through the pearly white gates of the bitcoin time chain.
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We see a totally different 64 character combination. This is how data is verified in Cyberseurity, and bitcoin is no different which should not suprise anyone since SHA256 is also used in Cybersecurity. To change the math requires changing every single one of these transactions since January 3rd, 2009. How bad would your electric bill need to be to accomplish this? I don't know, but It's not likely to happen since honesest miners are rewarded with fees, These fees are like tribute transactions must pay to get out of purgatory, Some transactions pay more, some try to pay less. The miners are incintivized to let the more expensive transactions to go through the pearly white gates of the bitcoin time chain.
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Adam Back's email is not a transaction, but those leading zero bits are the backbone of the bitcoin time chain. If you hash my full legal name with SHA1, we get this result `02c53da577460a2e8eead6e85da88199c64eb1bd`. If we hash it with SHA256, I see two zero bits. `0024f0a28bf81851ed8490c4e87173f8790bd9d8ea9423442114d25ad7137f51` Pretty cool, right? It's as if I was destined to fall in love with this math.
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Adam Back's email is not a transaction, but those leading zero bits are the backbone of the bitcoin time chain. If you hash my full legal name with SHA1, we get this result `02c53da577460a2e8eead6e85da88199c64eb1bd`. If we hash it with SHA256, I see two zero bits. `0024f0a28bf81851ed8490c4e87173f8790bd9d8ea9423442114d25ad7137f51` Pretty cool, right?
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These zerobits are also found in the bitcoin timechain. Here's the latest block at the time of tnis writing:
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https://mempool.marc26z.com/block/0000000000000000000119b26c1a9a3c0b7e3e9320c8cd32159377c9316c62a6
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This is from an instance of mepool that I run from a [Start9](https://store.start9.com/) server.
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It only has one leading zero bit. Of I add another character
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Despite what some people say, bitcoin is not really a religion. This is just an analogy. Proof of work is actually math using hexadecimal. This math reminds me of sonnets. 64 character hexadecimals are like 14 lines of a sonnet. Zero bits have a pattern abab rhymes. The [difficulty adjustment](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty) is like Iarhymembic Pentameter and the block header is like the last two indented lines of a Sonnet. Bitcoin is poetry in the language of mathematics.
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Despite what some people say, bitcoin is not really a religion. This is just an analogy. Proof of work is actually math using hexadecimal. This math reminds me of sonnets. 64 character hexadecimals are like 14 lines of a sonnet. Zero bits have a pattern abab rhymes. The [difficulty adjustment](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty) is like Iarhymembic Pentameter and the block header is like the last two indented lines of a Sonnet. Bitcoin is poetry in the language of mathematics.
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