## Timechain Hyperspace

The issue with cyberspace being so exceedingly huge is that avatars could spawn in and fly around their entire lives without ever encountering another person. This is quite discouraging, and although it does accurately reflect the vastness of our own universe, it does not make for an engaging or useful digital space.

Therefore, I devised a way to make use of bitcoin's proof-of-work in cyberspace.

One of the core tenets of cyberspace is that everything must have a thermodynamic cost. Bitcoin is backed by the most significant output of thermodynamic energy of any computer system. This thermodynamic expenditure has the effect of securing the bitcoin network, which is effectively a payment to the universe for the benefit of bitcoin's users.

My idea is this: the hash of each bitcoin block can be interpreted as a cyberspace coordinate. Each block can be thought of as a hyperspace railway. Since the block hash is random and cannot be known it advance, it is unknown where this railway through cyberspace will eventually travel. But it will travel randomly and fairly across cyberspace, adding a new stop every 10 minutes, and avatars can use it to instantly jump from one block to the next block for a minor POW expenditure of their own, like buying a ticket to ride an already constructed subway train. In this way, the POW expended for bitcoin's sake directly benefits cyberspace users by providing POW-back transportation infrastructure around cyberspace. This is also good because it gives users a highway to build around and a focus to travel around. Without this unifying golden highway through cyberspace, everything would be lost in a near-endless void.

While the primary purpose of cyberspace is to create physical constraints on digital space, the massive thermodynamic expenditure of bitcoin creates a totally fair and unpredictable, immutable pathway through the cyberspace coordinate system. I therefore believe that while traveling across the timechain does provide significant relief from the constraints cyberspace was invented to enforce, it also creates a dynamic and accessible way for users of cyberspace to travel vast distances that might otherwise be barriers between them and the meaningful connections I hope cyberspace can create.

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