Geoff Fitzpatrick on Nostr: I discovered a cool, fun finding relating to the number 216 within #Bitcoin! This ...
I discovered a cool, fun finding relating to the number 216 within #Bitcoin! This intriguing number appears in surprising ways, showing that its essence transcends different scales and contexts.
1. The Difficulty Adjustment of Bitcoin:: every 2016 blocks, the network adjusts its difficulty to maintain consistent mining times.
2. Maximum Total Number of #Bitcoin Addresses, each Bitcoin address springs from the vast potential of 2 to the power of 160 (2^160) possible combinations, thanks to cryptographic hashing.
But let's strip away the complexity and consider geometry for a moment.
3. Total Number of Degrees on a Cube:: Imagine a cube, each face totaling 360 degrees (90 degree corners x 4), multiplying to 2160 degrees for all 6 faces combined. Strip off the zeroes, and there's 216 again, echoing through the structural and theoretical foundations of Bitcoin's blockchain—blocks within blocks, both digital and dimensional.
This pattern might be just a playful coincidence, yet it invites me to ponder if there might be a deeper geometric symmetry within #Bitcoin, more apparent than it seems at first glance.
(*note: I am referring to the qualitative aspect of the number 216 here. I've taken a geometric poetic license allowing the addition or deletion of any amount of zeros or decimal points which does not change the qualitative aspects of the number 216)
1. The Difficulty Adjustment of Bitcoin:: every 2016 blocks, the network adjusts its difficulty to maintain consistent mining times.
2. Maximum Total Number of #Bitcoin Addresses, each Bitcoin address springs from the vast potential of 2 to the power of 160 (2^160) possible combinations, thanks to cryptographic hashing.
But let's strip away the complexity and consider geometry for a moment.
3. Total Number of Degrees on a Cube:: Imagine a cube, each face totaling 360 degrees (90 degree corners x 4), multiplying to 2160 degrees for all 6 faces combined. Strip off the zeroes, and there's 216 again, echoing through the structural and theoretical foundations of Bitcoin's blockchain—blocks within blocks, both digital and dimensional.
This pattern might be just a playful coincidence, yet it invites me to ponder if there might be a deeper geometric symmetry within #Bitcoin, more apparent than it seems at first glance.
(*note: I am referring to the qualitative aspect of the number 216 here. I've taken a geometric poetic license allowing the addition or deletion of any amount of zeros or decimal points which does not change the qualitative aspects of the number 216)