You are correct. What I meant to say was:
An objective measure of energy (such as Bitcoin Difficulty) in POW-backed content is our only hope for better honest online and social media.
Post by twetch#2584
Boost is backed by capital, not Proof of Work. It doesn't matter that PoW is involved in the system because it's not an input to the system.
What the chain says
- Block
- 633 503
- Time
- 2020-05-05T04:08:48Z
- Signer
- 17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
- Name in tx
- twetch#2584
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
Signed by
17mNxa3wLR3UpkxzBHkTQ1ynn6boQ3zGjY VerifiedReplies (14)
Everything a person can do is backed by their capital.
Capital means "investment or asset or contribution".
For example, eating a mango is backed by the person's primary direct property called their "body". This is capital, too.
I guess the key thing to analyze is the effect of capital as an input to the system. Systems are complex things.
The question arises of who is the "they" or "self" to which the capital is ascribed? This question is at the heart of contemplative practice. The Self is not the body since you don't become less self if limbs are lost. It's also not simply semantics.
In this case you responded to the fruits of my labor and capital by replying to me. So you did not have a problem assigning it to "my self".
Do you have an example where you have a difficulty assigning (capital) causes and effects?
The problem of what encompasses the self is a problem of subjectivity and objectivity. The self that can be made an object is not the Seer which is the Self that is aware of that object. Capital relates to span and Self to depth. For instance, your dollar
in the market place represents you, but the question arises of what is the "You" that your capital represents? What are the qualities of the You that your capital symbolizes? It is a body? If so, are you still "you" in dreams with no body? Ideas? etc.
"Anything a person can do is backed by capital." The ability to remain in a pure witness, non-dual state does not depend on capital which I defining as matrialism. To assume the Self IS capital is to define Self in materialist terms which do not apply.