DNA is easy to replicate, so life spreads. Blockchains are the same way.
Ralph Merkle was onto something when he analogized bitcoin to a new form of life.
quotingFree thinkers digest and assess a thought, regardless of who it comes from. Feeble thinkers rely on status and heuristics to assess if the thought might be valuable. The difference between the two is simple — one is trust-minimized, ignoring the trust in the party’s authority in favor of analyzing the actual content of the thought.
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At the heart of the scientific method and free thought, therein lies trust-minimization and verification through the reproducibility of logic. Even knowledge itself spreads through being able to reproduce it locally, like life itself. 🧬 Knowledge, like life, decentralizes itself through us.