This is a paradoxical way of thinking because most computer engineers only think about making smaller, faster, and more energy efficient chips/systems. The problem with this kind of thinking is that it's impossible to achieve systemic security by using only encoded logic. Encoded logic, no matter how cleverly designed, cannot prevent that logic from being exploited. To achieve systemic unhackable cyber security, we have to design intentionally large, slow, and energy intensive state-space that is physically constrained.

This is what Satoshi did with his protocol. His protocol incentivized humans to begin creating a planetary-scale state mechanism with these physically constrained properties. The Bitcoin networks motherboard is the global electric power grid, and it's state-changing transistors are the power generators.

These physical constraints allow us to take the underlying physically constrained bits of information and use them to design programs that are unhackable.

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In short, I'm not talking about spacially constrained hardware, I'm talking about applying physical constraints to the actual bitsvof information themselves (Satoshi did this part) and then using those physically constrained bits of information in ways that secure other software and networks.. that is.. to treat these bits of information in ways other than simply assigning monetary value to them.

This is the future.