1/ 🧵 Randomly thought of an interesting analogy between blockchain technology and the real world. Imagine each person as a node, each with a unique copy of the world's state stored in their brain. Every piece of news or new information acts like a transaction.

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2/ When people encounter news it's like they receive a tx, they validate it, updating their local copy of the world's state, much like nodes process transactions in a blockchain. Some nodes, like media or celebrities, are premium, propagating transactions faster.

3/ Controversial topics can create forks in the chain. Over time, as the majority of nodes converge on a version of the truth, newcomers follow the "longest chain." This reflects our history: the dominant narratives that survive shape the truths learned by future generations.

5/ Layer 2 solutions are like specialized communities or interest groups where nodes download and validate specific "tx" relevant to them.

6/ For censorship-resistant topics, it's like a central authority preventing nodes from accessing certain types of "transactions," shaping the network's view of the world.

7/ Just as blockchain technology ensures data integrity and decentralization, this analogy shows how our collective consciousness processes and preserves information.

8/ From validating news to following influential nodes, and from handling controversial forks to managing our limited attention span, blockchain mirrors the complexities of human society.

9/ There are many more facets to explore in this analogy, revealing deeper insights into how we process, validate, and prioritize information in our interconnected world.

4/ Block space, a limited resource for transactions, represents society's collective attention. When nodes prioritize downloading transactions about a celebrity scandal, they might miss transactions about a distant war.