Oddbean new post about login | logout PoW can't be simulated.
Doesn't that just mean the simulator is capable of computation?
Why do testnet coins eventually gain value unless the network is wiped?
Testnet coins have value. The mythology of it is to say that they dont. You cant actually wipe a testnet, any reorg will make the chain of accumulated work longer. All you can do is stop linking to it.
🤔 id like to see this expanded if you already have or plan on. I’m thinking in video games you have to put in the work to acquire resources. The character may be indifferent to whether actual energy was used or if the activity is simulated.
I can confirm it's way less tiring to shoot guns and steal cars in video games 😂
If you’re the character being played you wouldn’t be aware of that
I am always the character when I play
Everything you currently experience is relative to your environment. If all you know is this environment, you don’t really know if there’s something else beyond it. You’re a prisoner or your brain and how it perceives things. Now imagine this is a game (a rudimentary simulation) and you don’t know what actual forces control you. You’d have no way of knowing apart from discovering some glitch that hinted at this being a simulation.
Ok imagine you are the character and the game teleports you or creates a thousand bricks of gold in front of view: you broke all laws of physics. So I think in-game PoW might be overrated