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Would Bitcoin have helped Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning?
Minor SPOILERS below....
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In the film, Hunt and team are fighting a rogue AI that's capable of changing our digital history at will. Things get so bad that the team realize they can't rely on the truth of any digital information, anywhere, and try to go completely analogue to fight it.
If you're a Bitcoiner, by this point you're probably already thinking of one digital source of truth that cannot be changed other than by making new valid transactions. An absolutely true ledger, whose historic information literally could not be tampered with, or deleted, without redoing all the vast proof of work that has accumulated in the ledger.
An AI, faced with this impossible task in a realm that straddles the physical and the digital, would be defeated and our source of truth in the timechain would remain uncorrupted. We could include any messages we needed to preserve in transactions broadcast to the network, and the laws of physics would protect them, forever.
Bitcoin is digital, but tied to the real world through proof of work. Energy cannot be forged; and we cannot create more time. The ledger is protected by the laws of the universe, which even an all-powerful AI cannot change.
It was sad, in a way, to see the Mi7 team printing out records rather than using proof of work to defend them. Perhaps that wouldn't have been a good use of blockspace?
Maybe there's a use case for ordinals after all 😜
Gigi is of course magnificent extra reading on this. I particularly love this piece: "Every 10 minutes, Bitcoin re-asserts itself. Every 10 minutes, it cements a message in its timechain: "you shall not steal."
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Bitcoin Is the Rediscovery of Money | dergigi.com
Minor SPOILERS below....
.
.
.
In the film, Hunt and team are fighting a rogue AI that's capable of changing our digital history at will. Things get so bad that the team realize they can't rely on the truth of any digital information, anywhere, and try to go completely analogue to fight it.
If you're a Bitcoiner, by this point you're probably already thinking of one digital source of truth that cannot be changed other than by making new valid transactions. An absolutely true ledger, whose historic information literally could not be tampered with, or deleted, without redoing all the vast proof of work that has accumulated in the ledger.
An AI, faced with this impossible task in a realm that straddles the physical and the digital, would be defeated and our source of truth in the timechain would remain uncorrupted. We could include any messages we needed to preserve in transactions broadcast to the network, and the laws of physics would protect them, forever.
Bitcoin is digital, but tied to the real world through proof of work. Energy cannot be forged; and we cannot create more time. The ledger is protected by the laws of the universe, which even an all-powerful AI cannot change.
It was sad, in a way, to see the Mi7 team printing out records rather than using proof of work to defend them. Perhaps that wouldn't have been a good use of blockspace?
Maybe there's a use case for ordinals after all 😜
Gigi is of course magnificent extra reading on this. I particularly love this piece: "Every 10 minutes, Bitcoin re-asserts itself. Every 10 minutes, it cements a message in its timechain: "you shall not steal."
dergigi.com
Bitcoin Is the Rediscovery of Money | dergigi.com