Qi Quai, Entropy, Free energy principle, Maximum entropy principle, Calculus
Block chain
Ideas
- We could try to create a monetary system that satisfied the four functions of money and nothing more.
- Energy is a currency in that it can be identified with a body, and transferred from one body to another. It is converted from kinectic energy and potential energy. It can be attributed to an entire system or to its constituents. It can pass in or out of a system across its boundary.
Literature
https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.02121
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02209
Bitcoin Whitepaper (where proof of work was originally defined, as an evolution to several ideas e.g. Hashcash, B-money): https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
(Note the portion about Timestamp server) -
here's a fun reading about Bitcoin in terms of time (not required to read, just for fun): https://21-ways.com/2/
Clocks in Distributed Systems (Blockchains are distributed systems): https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
"Learn me a Bitcoin" is a good educational resource on how the Bitcoin network operates : https://learnmeabitcoin.com/
Good interactive demo/resource for understand hashes and chains of hashes: https://andersbrownworth.com/blockchain/