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There's nobody buried in a tomb of the unknown solider, it's symbolic I think.

There were 4 unidentified soldiers buried in the tomb. One from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. The Vietnam soldier was exhumed, positively identified and reburied per the family’s wishes. Reading about the selection process for which unknown soldier got the honor is wild. Particularly WWII when it came down to the final two in the selection process one got chosen for the tomb and one buried at sea after being exhumed from one resting place and traveling around the world.

I did find it interesting how important 21 is in the guarding of the tomb of the unknown soldier.

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Séimí Mac Síomón 2y ago

That's mental, what's the 21 thing about?

Mallory 2y ago

The guards do everything in increments of 21 like taking 21 steps, pausing for 21 seconds. It’s in homage to the 21 gun salute. Which happens at a soldiers funeral when they’re buried with honors.

Mallory 2y ago

Coincidentally I dreamed last night about showing someone the shells I have from my grandfather’s and uncle’s 21 gun salutes.

Séimí Mac Síomón 2y ago

21 million bitcoin, wierd coincidence eh?

Mallory 2y ago

21 was my basketball number. 21 is also the age where you can legally drink in the US. You could probably find lots of reasons why the number 21 million was chosen.

Maybe 21 was chosen because it’s a triangle number and the triangle is the strongest shape.

Mallory 2y ago

We’re also in the 21st century

Mallory 2y ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_(number)

The Servile Statist 2y ago

1 + 7 + 7 + 6

Mallory 2y ago

Ooo another option. Assumes Satoshi is from the US. Or do you believe the theory that it was created by the CIA?

The Servile Statist 2y ago

My ‘real’ opinion is that Satoshi picked the starting mining reward at 50 BTC and 210,000 blocks/halving, and ~21 million BTC is the result. It could be that Satoshi picked “a value for blocks/halving such that you get a similar looking number for total supply.”

The 21 gun thing predates the US, but I’m told that the “1776” interpretation is a common interpretation meme given to it in the military. 🤷‍♂️

The Servile Statist 2y ago

Writing this out, I realized it’s wrong 🤣