powellquesne

Writer / developer responsible for bitcoinmars.org

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Quantum crypto-disruption delayed, links

One of the coolest things about spacewalks rarely nailed by science fiction is the enormous value of a drone tech assist: "It has an elbow, shoulders and even wrists, and it [is] the first robot able...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

How Bitcoin (Cash) gets our ass to Mars

The columnar view slides about fifty places to the right until it's centred on the scroll of robotics, as requested, and then the human anchormen take centre screen. They look like classic, old-school...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Bitcoin Mars, the BCH node, as described by the novel

(snoopset) "--dictated pointlessly by a blockchain's consensus rules, a group running a splinter node fired back by implementing a competing consensus rule, rejecting the first rule, and demanding th...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Bandwidth Explosion: 800 Gigabit Ethernet, links

Bandwidth Explosion: "An optical solution that uses four 200 Gbps wavelength lanes to reach 800 GbE." Read . "Of more than 9,000 satellites sent into orbit since 1957, SpaceX has already deployed 1,...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Key excerpt from "Bitcoin Mars" on Bitcoin mining's responsive energy utilisation (REU)

"Quit showing off, Brent," says Leon, bounding wider of the crater to avoid the dust billowing. (snoopset) "Look who's talkin'... Neil!" Leon says, "Hippity hoppity!" Terrain can get tricky this c...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Energy-conscious mission statement for BitcoinMars.org

BitcoinMars.org is a science fiction website based upon the potential near and far future uses of a real Bitcoin Mars Forking Node (which, in its most experimental form, will be known as the Bitcoin...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Introducing... "Bitcoin Mars"

"CHAINSPLIT!" It's a rim howler, alright. It's not just a distant, ghostly, undifferentiated whine anymore. He can hear the regular scooping of the thing's initial roar through his space helmet. The...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Dunes of Mars and Titan, links

Giant flexoelectricity: "This theory engineers a connection between electricity and mechanical motion in soft rubber-like materials." Read . "This ability to keep materials cool during ion diffusion...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Serve readers, not platforms

Serve readers, not platforms. My 'content' will be platform-agnostic in that I will only link you from one social 'platform' to another when there is something interesting happening over there, not ju...

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@powellquesne · 2 years ago

Dear Readers (a postmortem)

Hi all, Apologies for not having produced any more articles in my original plan for how to provide value for the Bitcoin Cash community. I had a few good things in the works back in March, including...

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@powellquesne · 3 years ago

Clash of the Slogans: Is Bitcoin “Digital Gold” or “P2P Cash”?

The name’s Quesne, pronounced ‘Cane’, and I am here with a logical, straightforward method of picking a winner in the clash of slogans that I’ve observed in the near half-decade I’ve spent delving int...

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