Store and forward! It’s definitely storing stuff, with a spectrum of guarantees on how long.
Nothing can store data forever, eventually entropy will consume us all.
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You're on to something. Nothing can store data forever. But the bitcoin block chain might be as close as we get. Let that be the withness.
probably true, it will be hard to comprehend how important the bitcoin ledger is, I imagine future earth-based lifeforms will want to preserve that as long as possible, most likely even backing it up offworld incase of worldwide disaster.
or maybe we will all be wiped out and people will forget about it.
If we're all wiped out, the block chain can store instructions on how to reboot the species. Win-Win!
That one time when nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gprpmhxw309akk7mnpvshx5c34x5hxxmmd8gurqwpsqyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyvhwumn8ghj7urewfsk66ty9enxjct5dfskvtnrdaks7vj9m5 transferred 0,0436 BTC to someone else. An event for the world to remember.
0.0436
Right now I am focused on getting away from commercial platform capture. I now see how relays could specialize into long term storage relays and NIP44 be shored up to handle PQC.
For me, the mind blowing part is a different thinking model where the network is the app, storage, etc.