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built for eternity, discovered in fragments, reborn as data.
the ancients carved their existence into stone because they feared being forgotten. we encode ours into networks for much the same reason. civilizations vanish, gods change names, and technology becomes archaeology.
yet the human impulse remains unchanged: to leave behind a signal that says we were here. perhaps the blockchain is only our generationβs stone wall, another attempt to make something permanent in a universe where nothing is.