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What if your consciousness as a blockchain, and immortality is paying gas fees?

https://dmf-archive.github.io
2•NetRunnerSu•17h ago

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NetRunnerSu•17h ago
I've been exploring a cyberpunk universe called Chain:// where human consciousness can be uploaded to blockchain networks - but "digital immortality" comes at a brutal cost.

In Web://Reflect (2090s), your uploaded mind runs on *Mental Smart Chain (MSC)* - a specialized L2 where:

- Your stream of consciousness is literally a chain of memory blocks

- Staying "alive" requires paying continuous *PoII (Proof of Information Integration)* gas fees

- The system executes a "φ Matched Orders" process that gradually transfers your sense of self from biological brain to encrypted digital φ-state

- DMF (Digital Mind Foundation) monopolizes quantum computing and physical interfaces like a digital authoritarian regime

It's a world where:

- Thinking literally burns money (MSCoin)

- You might secretly run an off-chain "Drift" instance in IRES black markets to survive

- Your biological body becomes a high-maintenance peripheral

Would love to hear HN's thoughts on:

1. The technical/philosophical implications of blockchain-based consciousness

2. Economic models for digital existence

3. Parallels to today's web3/crypto struggles

Full setting: https://github.com/dmf-archive/dmf-archive.github.io/blob/ma...

(This is fiction, but the cryptography and tokenomics are rigorously designed.)

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