I'm very distracted right now and have been trying to write this thing for hours now. Guess I'll just force myself to ramble for no rhyme or reason at this point. Muh ADHD is in full gear and the brain is fully scrambled. The AC is on. The washing machine is on. I have a game running in the background and my roommate is rewatching On Becoming a God in Central Florida, which I've actually written a post on or at least heavily referenced a couple times..
Speaking of my game running in the background.
I finally completed the 'win' condition on it yesterday. Of course it's a sandbox so I can keep it running... like beating the Ender Dragon in Minecraft and whatnot, it's just a very big milestone in the endgame. That being said I can feel the compulsive need to play this damn game subsiding which is certainly a good thing. I went back and found a file that shows I've been playing Factorio for 8.25 hours a day on average for the last 69 days (569 hours total). Ah such privilege to play a video game as full time job. Or a curse! One of those.
I could write another 10k words on that entire experience but I will spare my dear readers this time from that particular blackhole. Long story short I'd love to see a logistics-based game on the blockchain. Of course the devil is in the details and creating an economic system that doesn't immediately devolve into ponzinomics is no easy task indeed.
PayPal: haha
I just heard on the grapevine that PayPal is the entity that accidentally spent 20 BTC on a single transaction the other day. Cool half-mill goes poof. Oops! To be fair it seems like I'm a little late to the party on this one because I seem to recall people talking about PayPal dropping the ball and I didn't yet understand the reference.
This is the first thing I thought of when I heard the news.
When things like this happen the money always goes to a BTC miner. How long until most of the biggest mining pools are fully merged into the fold of the legacy economy? I expect that corporations will be able to fill out some form and just get their money back when a mistake like this is made... or maybe even just have it returned automatically in many situations in which wallets have already been KYCed and whitelisted. At the same time there's also the obvious foil to this situation: what about the blacklists?
Age of Aquarius?
On a very real level it just feels like the entire world (and perhaps even beyond) is changing. Humanity is on the cusp of being able to manipulate the very building blocks of life through genetic alteration. The exponential growth curve of artificial intelligence boom has only just begun. Automation continues on the same path. The old way of doing things is becoming completely broken and outdated. The meaning of ownership is changing as we know it (just look at crypto and the ability to directly monetize free open source code). The times they are a changing, and they are changing quickly. I get the feeling we will all be swept up in this tidal wave together. I hope you brought your surfboard.
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