I was thinking about how Ethereum was the first coin (that I knew of) to allow creation of coins that “don’t have their own blockchain” – they reside in ETH’s. They do have a chain of their own of course, but they don’t need separate pools of machines to power each of them, which was a unique idea. Taking the “Bitcoin pool” idea a step further, making it a “coin pool.”
Steem similarly had a unique idea – the blockchain will be powered by the top 20 “witnesses,” machines creating blocks every 3 seconds. There are many more witnesses, vying to get into the top 20 (since the rewards are larger), which is achieved both by getting people to “witness vote” for them, and also by not having any downtime, i.e., never missing a block. But the “mining” is done by these few machines recording the posts, comments, voting, and wallet exchanges (perhaps more? -- account creation, for one...) -- rather than millions of machines across the world, like Bitcoin's blockchain. That's one of the reasons the 3 second blocks were able to be achieved, which is a neat breakthrough.
So I was wondering what the next idea would be, and I thought of “holographic blockchains” – they’d be written into atoms, and would appear differently depending on how you looked at them. Of course that's really just a physical advance, it'd probably be incorporated into hard drives and as such the “holographic” nature of the blockchain wouldn't really be all that new.
So, next, “quantum blockchains”, which would require quantum computers. I’ve played around with Quantum::Superpositions in Perl a little, but not much. Quantum allows for variables to have multiple values, at the same time – so the Perl module was really slow, having to emulate that, but did eventually perform exactly like a quantum computer would, which was really neat. I haven’t kept up with quantum developments, this was back in 2005 give or take a couple years; over a decade ago, at any rate.
So then I thought, what form would a quantum blockchain take? Perhaps one already exists! When I was a teenager I learned about the Akashic Records, but never really explored astral projection. I’ve had several lucid dreams, which are a lot of fun, but aren’t the same although may be related. Anyway, the Akashic Record is a record of everything. What’s a blockchain? A record of everything.
Astral bodies tend to sparkle, if seen (I haven’t; only read about it, and “seen it in movies”). That’s what made me think of diamonds, and Heaven and related artifacts are generally thought to be above us – so, the sky, which led to my title. I'd imagine the Akashic Records, storing everything that happens everywhere, to be a combination of quantum and holographic records.
Or perhaps just all quantum; how many added horses pulling my car would make it perform better? :)
Could the Akashic Record be “God's Blockchain”?
Enjoy!
And for the thumbnail, a Flame Painter drawing fitting for the season, “Pumpkin Pie”:
