–Good evening woodcutters –Woodcoin is one month old! Come take a breather from your chopping and hear of my tales of my travels through the lands of the ents.
It’s true, I have spoken with the trees.
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To communicate properly with someone, you have to have some empathy with them. One must be able to not only visualize but really to be in their predicament. It’s not always easy with the trees. It takes a lot of time. Of course without the help of the wizards and the elves I would have never had the opportunity.
It turns out they run consensus networks as well, through massive root networks bridged by interaction with external fungal networks. Block time is most often on the order of a year.
I asked in a trance by the roots of a tall pine about slow networks. They won’t touch a coin with block time under 4 months.
You’d be amazed what they can do! Even if the block time is slow they get much more rapid transaction depth than you’d think. Some kind of distributed mempool and global.
And yet, apparently it was impossible for me to navigate. The wizards said it was a spaghetti of multiple forks sometimes thousands of years old and yet all coexisting. The ents are astronomers. Big thinkers. I’m not sure we’re ready.
Extremely friendly and beautiful creatures, the trees seem to speak in riddles. I went into a trance and tried to visualize the network on the console and communicate with the tree beside me. The tree seemed to tell me that I’m already mining in its consensus network! Something about the mitochondria of our cells as ASIC cores.
I started to understand their transaction formats. Extremely flexible protocols. I realized part of what I couldn’t understand was I couldn’t find where the value or tokens were tallied in the transaction body. The tree seemed to sense my trouble and told me that they had no need for artificial scarcity in their activities.
It might sound crazy but it seemed almost like the trees are in an upsidedown world compared to my usual viewpoint. Their heads are where we would call below the surface, and they dangle their legs “down” into the sky. One thing I felt sure about was that we would not be alive here without them.
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OK ok, lets get back to work. I didn’t just start this post to hint at future donations to tree hugging organizations, but yes these are indeed in the timeline soon enough. I also would like to take this opportunity to thank the early supporters of woodcoin, in a sacrificial ceremony in honor of the trees.
The ents gave me a placeholder address for when we finally plug woodcoin in as a sidechain to the Gaia mainnet:
WeHonorTheForestsAndTheTrees4pPXTQ
I have sent a generous donation 
— Funkenstein the Dwarf