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The blockchain is yours, huh? Let me tell you a story.
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Billions of years ago, a little thing called life started on a far-away planet. These were simple, single celled things, but in time they evolved. Cells experimented with symbiosis, and soon, multicellular organisms emerged. Initially, these were primitive, and not all of these worked out. One of them did, however. So well, in fact, because it consumed other multicellular organisms. Soon enough, the cells themself became less of the individual, and more of a material. These "creatures" were divided into two types, the equivalent of male and female. This was far from the duplication that the single celled organisms were able to achieve, but it was good, and it functioned as a safeguard to not destroy the entire ecosystem. However, life was simple, the goal? Do what you need to do to reproduce. This did not last forever.
Eventually, these 'animals' became more sophisticated, able to interpret the world around them, and find other goals in their short life. They could recognize certain things, distinguish their usefulness from prior knowledge, and even use the world around them to their advantage. Not long after, they became self-aware, on a level of sapience multitudes more complex than their single-celled ancestors. They felt special, unique, like everything was made for them. They felt like there was more to life than just preserving their kind. They wanted to leave their future generations a legacy, something to marvel at. And so started a society.
Good things don't last forever. Sometimes, leaving a peaceful and passive presence on the world wasn't enough. They wanted action, conflict, an epic story. They found reasons to fight against each other, be it reasonable or not. This is an unavoidable step in a civilization. Soon, some couldn't take it. They left, fled away to faraway corners of their world, and did that whole 'society' thing again. But this time, there would be no fighting. But there was. Two turned into four, four into eight, eight into sixteen, until the entire race was broken up into little fragments. They were going backwards. They had to unite, had to resolve their problems, had to put behind the centuries of violent conflict. And they did. They made a truce. There was one benefit to the entire debacle. Knowledge. Each nation found new information from their part of the world. And now, it was all shared to each other. They felt clever. They felt like there was more to the world than just glory and honor.
With that, they took a step forward, and were thrust into a new era. They could now improve their life, work on personal goals, and still do all the other stuff. One nation found out how to turn the world into power. A substance, one that seems to be perfect for such a task, was extracted from the very soil beneath their feet. It could be used for everything! It could generate heat, energy, and even be made into a very versatile material. Some people were not happy with how it affected their surroundings. They wanted to go back, back to the simple days, when you could enjoy a day without being consumed with everyday tasks. They looked for a simple way. Maybe they could get their power from the very heavens, which would push their colossal fans. No, everybody was far too absorbed into this magic material. Little did they know, it was running out, fast.
When the time came, and their precious ichor ran out, panic ensued. What were they going to do? They knew what to do. They build huge contraptions, ones that would house their entire species, and carry them off to distant planets. In a streak of luck, every single instance colonized a new planet. In turn, these colonies began forming civilizations. However, their belief of why they were sent away was different. After many years in cryostasis, they forgot everything. So they had to come up with something, not to mention a language, as they were like a newborn, new to the whole 'living' deal. Some sort of belief to unite people. And so they did. Each one believed that they were the outcasts of their former empire, and were banished to a far-away land. They believed that the pure ones were still on their home planet. Wait- we've seen this before. The nation being split up, the factions finding reasons to fight one another, the knowledge barrier, oh no!
They didn't know how to get back. Except each one of their spacecraft stored a vector of its travel path. What's worse, it had enough fuel to make three trips-- to and back, just as a backup plan for a bad planet! The only thing the little barbarians needed to do was find the right buttons to push. And so they did. Their anger was now etched into their very being. They arrived at the planet. One didn't even wake up before their destruction. The weapons were made to protect their species, not destroy it. But it worked just as well. Each one didn't even understand one another, and at this point, most didn't even know what they were fighting for. War ensued. But this time, it didn't end well. Only a very small remainder of one of the species remained. It felt like they were going against their most primal purpose, their own preservation. But this race built back up from the rubble.
They made sure to inform their future generations of what they endured, so that this would never happen again. They told stories of Gods, ones that loved their creations, but only their own creations. The Gods fought against one another, until only one remained, and the damage sustained heavily reduced the population. This was enough to stop conflict. More than enough. They build a utopia, one where everybody lived in harmony, and no pain existed. But soon, this way of life didn't cut it. They wanted to know it there was anyone else out there. They built huge structures ones that could catch messages from the great beyond. And all they got was static. When this civilization had colonized their entire system, they built bigger, more powerful instruments to find these messages. They even turned a planet into one. It still seemed to do nothing. When this civilization had inhabited dozens of systems, they harnessed the power of their sun. And did they use it for infinite power, or simulating their entire species. No. They used all of it to send just one question, in every direction, an unimaginable number of times a second, out into the great unknown. "Hello?"
It was not long before they received a single response. This response-- it was like music. Nobody could decode it, because they were too busy admiring it. They built monuments and transmitters of this signal. It was their Ichor. And this time, it did not run out. They felt like they found the purpose in life, and every other one was just bogus interpretations. But this one, no, this was the true purpose to everything. Something they could never replicate. They put it in mind chips and they forged it into their very DNA, so that they were constantly experiencing this true ecstasy. And then they were gone.
An all powerful alien race exterminated the entire empire. The music, well it was just a spell. A sequence of ones and zeros, ons and offs, dits and dats so beautiful that it would hypnotize anything. Except for the very monsters who created it. And the little civilization could do nothing, they were all piles of goo, knowing nothing but pure pleasure, not a care in the world. They were wiped out as easily as can be. Nobody knew why the invaders did this, be it beliefs, anger, or just a casual act, like killing a mosquito, you think nothing of it. But in the end, it didn't matter what was theorized, because everyone was gone. Everyone of course, except the non-believers. These were the few that were immune to the sound, for reasons unknown. They had one last plan.
In an instant they gave the star an order, and they set it to execute one thing, and one thing only. Send every single possible configuration of a signal, up to an arbitrarily large number of bits. Every instant, it sent an essentially infinite amount of signals, in the hopes of greatly outnumbering the deadly spell, so the rest of the universe could never experience such a horror. This was their last act, as it became ingrained into the very static of the universe, and the last of their species was wiped out. But I would like you to note, O Dear Reader, of one last thing. Somewhere in that signal, is your entire life story, and in another place is every though that has ever passed your mind, and in another is the exact current location of every atom on earth, and then somewhere else is all of that combined. And then somewhere, maybe in the deepest corners, is your stupid fucking blockchain. And it's coming towards the earth again, and again, and again, every second, which we probably think is static. So no, retard, the blockchain isn't yours, it's a random string of numbers. Dumbass.