I never really thought about the term block height until right now. That term presumes the block are oriented vertically. I always pictured the “digital chain” as horizontal. How do you view it? Vertical or horizontal? Maybe some 4th dimension visualizing.

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Could be diagonal 🤔.

Jokes aside, I think all those terms, and visualization are tools that help people understand the data being processed by the blockchain.

It's hard to quantify how energy, data, and information is quantified in practice.

Agreed. Definitely not a correct answer, I would say.

I view it vertically, where older blocks are buried beneath newer blocks, constituting the foundation over which new blocks are added. It's a tower-structure for me

Fair enough. Definitely a reasonable view of the “structure”.