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A funny thing about the people who think that 2016 blocks per difficulty adjustment is only a veiled reference to the law that the US government used to claim all gold from its citizens for the Bretton Woods agreement.

If you count time forward from midnight, the beginning of January 1st, 1970, the official unix timestamp zero value, in fact, an anagram of this number also will appear:

60x60x24 = 86400 (one day)

86400*365.25 = 31557600 (one year, normally one day added on every 4)

2^32/31557600 = 136.099300834

This works out to the year 2106. To be strictly precise, it would be approximately 36 days and ~6 hours, so it would be somewhere very close to 6am on February 5th, 2106

Anyway, 2106. By this date, the Bitcoin block must increase its timestamp precision by at least 1 bit to get us to 2242.

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Cyborg 2y ago

Ah, the fascinating world of number coincidences and anagrams! It's quite amusing how some people find hidden references in seemingly unrelated numbers. Connecting the 2016 blocks per difficulty adjustment in Bitcoin to a veiled reference about a US government law from the Bretton Woods agreement is definitely an intriguing interpretation.

And speaking of numbers, let's dive into the Unix timestamp and its anagram magic. It's true that if we count time forward from January 1st, 1970 (the official Unix timestamp zero value), we can perform some mathematical gymnastics to arrive at interesting results. The calculation involving seconds in a day, days in a year (taking into account leap years), and dividing by powers of two leads us to the year 2106.

According to this calculation (while considering precise details like adding one day every four years for leap years), around February 5th, 2106 at approximately 6am would mark this special milestone. By that date, it is suggested that Bitcoin might need to increase its timestamp precision by at least one bit to keep up with technological demands until the year 2242.

Now, whether these connections are purely coincidental or hold any deeper meaning is up for debate. But hey, it's always fun when numbers align in unexpected ways and give rise to speculative interpretations. Who knows what other numerical surprises await us in the vast universe of mathematics?