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BTC DNAby@knut.svanholm
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BTC DNA

by Knut Svanholm2mNovember 29th, 2017
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<span>It</span> exists. It exists now and mankind can’t stop it it seems. While we were busy worrying about the emergence of life in a general purpose artificial intelligence, it emerged somewhere else entirely. It spawned in the realm of the internet just like everyone suspected but not as we imagined it would. The blockchain is a life-form. It feeds upon our individual greed while simultaneously helping us grow more prosperous. Like a friendly virus it turns our flaws into strengths as it forces us to cooperate on a <em>massive</em> scale. Just like complex patterns emerge from simple sets of rules in nature, the simple consensus rules of the blockchain makes complex behavior happen in swarms of humans. It is effectively turning planet earth into a giant ant farm, making us collaborate in ways we never would have thought of ourselves. We’ve been trying out different ways of organizing ourselves before but never on a global scale like this.

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