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Re:‘We’re a Cult’: Inside Bitcoin’s Shameless Hypefest by the_snooze on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:25AM (#30989182)
>treat it as authoritative forever without a mechanism for correction!

You write to the blockchain that there are 2 ice cubes on your desk. The ice cubes melt and evaporate, as ice cubes do. The blockchain says there are 2 ice cubes on your desk, so that must be truth forever and ever!

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Re:‘We’re a Cult’: Inside Bitcoin’s Shameless Hypefest by kuramitropolis on Monday April 11, 2022 @11:12AM (#30989920)
>The blockchain says there are 2 ice cubes on your desk, so someone must've written that to the blockchain at some point in the past.

FTFY

Or, in other words: you're confusing the map for the territory, therefore everyone else must also be confusing the map for the territory.

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