004 - Crypto Boom
A Crypto Thesis.
Assumption: Intelligence is measured by the ability to retain a history of events. Current functional calendars in existence go back several thousand years. These calendars, the Roman, the Chinese, indicate civilizations that created and used a way to track time. Events and history are applied to those timelines to create a recorded history. Many calendars and recorded histories have existed through the ages, Mayan and Egyptian calendars are both well known. How the ruling class in each epoch chose to use their knowledge of the observed patterns of time, both celestial and terrestrial, remains a discussion for another conversation. For this thesis it is enough to assume simply that Humanity has more or less a recorded history of several, even many millennia.
Now theorize that there is a “super-intelligent” entity somewhere in the Galaxy. This entity has a recorded history that goes back 100 million years. I like to think of them as Galactic librarians. They send craft all over the galaxy to observe and record events as they too are ever in the pursuit of the meaning of life, the creation of the Universe, the boundaries of the Universe and time. Perhaps this entity has their own “lost civilizations” from past, their own Mayans. This entity, like our civilization, has clues but no concrete knowledge of their own origin story. Their method of history is of course galactic and each star system has one of several blockchains upon which is stored the recorded events of those systems. Consider very large collisions noteworthy to this solar system history, or a very large spike of gamma rays on our recorded day July 16, 1045.
So, enter the Crypto space — An infinte recorded history of our time begins now. Even after the next several “world-ending events” the information and transactional record of every piece of Human knowledge in the arts, sciences, agriculture, astronomy, day-to-day life, world events and all things on the blockchain will be available after these “world-ending events” as simple as a book in a library. Even just a few survivors could “restart” civilization given a few resources and intelligence on how to verify the blockchain.
In conclusion, this Crypto Boom amidst the information age will forever be the start of our species 100 million year + historical record. Just as the sail boat took our species across previously unsurpassed distances of ocean, the blockchain will take our information across the previously insurmountable fathoms of gravity and time. Just like the Sonic Boom from exceeding the speed of sound, our recorded information Booms, now that it able to survive time, ad infinitum. Fittingly, the fourth piece in the NFT collection, is “Crypto Boom”. This NFT available here.