“If you want to understand what is consciousness, a good place to start is studying what can turn it off”. -Penrose

“maxing” an oldschool runescape account is notoriously hard, only the sweatiest of gamers dedicating hundreds of days of play time can pull it off. This is because 1 to 99 is almost an exponential curve. Getting level 92 is only half way to 99, and 92 is quite difficult to achieve, not to mention for all skills.

It has become somewhat of a nostalgic goal for a lot of gamers who played runescape as a kid, which is why it is still popular today 20+ years later.

I have a fun app idea where you use the same leveling curve but for personal and fitness goals. Max your real character instead.

Walking and moving around would give you some base xp/hr, like maybe 10k xp per hour. This is pretty standard for a low effort skill grind in osrs. Running and hiking could be 50k xp/hr. 99 is 13 million experience. Hook it into apple watch to count this xp automatically.

Gotta gamify it to get sweaty gamers to go touch grass. Habitica exists but I want the runescape grind 😆 maybe I’m weird.

BTC is backed by Energy in the form of proof of work. Proof of work is performed to secure the bitcoin network and create new coins into existence. The energy requirement is actually a feature and not a bug of the Bitcoin network :)

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” - Alexander Tytler

Right now:

Fiat= From apathy to dependence

Bitcoin= From bondage to spiritual faith.