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The SUPERCYCLE guy.

Performing elevator maintenance may be a letdown to some, but I find it to be quite uplifting.

Running LLMs at home, I’ve switched to running them on my gaming laptop. Its GeForce RTX 2060 with 6GB vRAM is sufficient to run 7B parameter models.

I’m currently running dolphin-2.9.3-mistral-7B-32K via GPT4ALL. It’s quite fast at ~6 tokens per second. Not quite as high quality as the 22B models I’ve tried, but significantly faster.

The asteroid belt contains all of the raw materials necessary for sustaining itself and its development independently, with the possible exception of helium-3 for fusion reactions. It probably has the deuterium for that form of fusion as a fallback, but generally prefers helium-3 from the moon.

For different entities to settle transactions among themselves beyond the Earth/moon, they must rely on proof-of-work generated there. They can’t participate, only verify. This means that while the asteroid belt can and does manufacture hashing hardware, it can’t benefit from mining. Asteroid belt colonists pay fees that accrue to Earth alone.

To be able to benefit from the fees, the asteroid colonists need a chain with a longer block time. They could spin up their own shitcoin for this, but that would suffer all the known problems of spinning up shitcoins. Lengthening the block time can be accomplished with a soft fork alone.

Regarding sidechains, the problem with any sidechain is the peg and its credibility. A pegged shitcoin is still a shitcoin, and so in my novel, I plan to presume that they’re just as ineffective and undesirable as I find them today.

The overarching tension I want to explore is the Earth-centric concentration of power imposed by the 10-minute block time, and what freedom and decentralization mean in the context of a burgeoning, spacefaring civilization.

This is helpful, thank you!

The world I'm building features a multiplanetary civilization with colonies on the moon and Mars. Because of Bitcoin's 10-minute block time, mining is only possible on the Earth/moon. Earth has become the centralized hub of finance through which other worlds must transact.

Colonies in the asteroid belt specialize in producing high-end computing hardware (including mining equipment) but can't themselves mine because they're too far out. The main conflict of the novel is the threat of asteroid colonists to execute a contentious fork with a significantly longer block time. This would decentralize mining throughout the inner solar system, undermining Earth's privileged position.

Still working out the details. It's likely that the main antagonist will be the CEO of a major power generation/mining outfit on Earth (uses energy production from lunar helium-3 fusion). Protagonist(s) TBD.