2022-03-25 10:56:09 ¶ ● ⬈

lime-bloods:

> of course it could just be that Lord English is using his vast network of recooperacomputers to mine for calcoins

forcing myself to look at this from a more serious angle I guess the calcoin mining sequence does actually establish an (ante-)precedent for caliborn forcing his subjects to become part of a computer network? (esp. given that real life blockchain mining doesn’t actually involve people sitting down at computers at all)

a meta very quickly emerged back in 2014 that gods of time associate themselves with money (caliborn’s crypto mining, dave’s stock market manipulation) because money has value (time) but no substance (space); it’s pure quantification, so to speak. and looking back the quantification of nothingness, the corruption of pure essence into mere data, is certainly demiurgent behaviour; so if we pretend for a second Lord English has hooked the sleeping minds of all of trollkind up to an immense blockchain, then what he’s really doing is quantifying dreams? which is still annoyingly vague but perhaps offers a more accessible diving board