It's a Rai Block. Rai blocks are a big unknown, as to their original purpose, but I hope to write an article on them, to debunk what the btc maxis all think about it (that it was a useless object and therefore proof that money can be faith-based-- money cannot be faith-based). Uses for Rai block (proof of) WORKs: 1. Wheel, that's why it has a hole in the middle 2. Grindstone, for traditional wheat processing, grains. Grindstones come in all shapes and sizes, larger are more valuable bc they do more work at once, and are harder to get. 3. source of stone, like a commoditized version. Notice they go from one island to another to quarry stone, perhaps the one island is bereft of stone. The wheel shape allows the source of stone to be transportable. 4. Base stations for structures. Stone has always been the best medium for foundations-- as it keeps wood and bamboo from having their "feet wet"-- rots. 5. Rai Stones represent work, perhaps works of art in later stages of history. It costs a LOT to move them. Ownership has NEVER required proximity. The Master still owns his palace when he's away from it on diplomatic missions. You can own a railroad but not live inside the headquarters building. So I don't know why this is talked about all the time. POWping would be appropriate symbol, as rai blocks no matter WHAT their use, are hard to create and move, thus ARE a representation of work-- just to make the circle, and drill the hole. and the bigger they are, the more work goes into it. The finished product is the "proof" of that work. Proof of Work is over-used, and mostly misunderstood concept. The cherry on the top of the sundae proves it is not hollow (fake), otherwise it would collapse the structure. It's the PROOF that a REAL sundae was made. It's not the sundae, and it's not a huge contributor to the sundae, it's just the proof. BitCoin is the same, the leading-zeroes solution is just PROOF that the Node did its work-- the work being transaction processing. As blocks get bigger, the leading-zeroes ASICs-hashing will become a smaller and smaller perecentage of the Node's expenditures, until it's practically trivial. The proof of work will become processing itself. This is part of an article I wrote already, but it's not ready for wide distribution yet-- still raw and needing edit and additional content added.

Ok, how do I clear my feed of this post-- it's driving me nuts in my notifications. I was done with this topic about a week after it happened, but it's in my feed all the time now. @unwriter ? And I still say it's a Dalek's eye. That's what it SHOULD represent anyway.

binary, black and white, 0 and 1, this world

Every point of experience and the surrounding infinite nuit

THE O of POWPING social network

information creation. creating information from nothing. the nothing = black and the information created = white

Light in darkness. But it definitely looks like a record....I hope you, your family and friends are doing well Unwriter.

The disk was better

exoteric and esoteric knowledge

Didn't like the answers? Ha! What have you done with the disc?!

It's a "record"

Who's eye-stalk is that? O.G. William Hartnell model.

Magnetic tape used to store/archive big datasets

I think it's a torus represennting the 'O' in Powping. According to Wikipedia a torus is a " a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis that is coplanar with the circle." For me - having used powping for a couple of weeks - it's about revolution. The faster the revolution (circle) spins, the faster the torus will rotate and draw people in... We are all responsible for making that circle spin around its axis...

A doughnut.

it is a disk, but also it is "decetralized"

I'm also guessing that Unwriter is third-cousins w/ Maria Popova / BrainPickings. I mean, just look at the tattoo. Also, this article sounds awfully powpingish... https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/07/buddhist-economics-schumacher/

keeping a “record” of everything?

The all seeing eye of Planaria...

There is light at the end of the tunnel. We are heading for a better world.

Sonar...it goes ping https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar

The Micronesian island of Yap is known for its stone money, known as Rai: Large doughnut-shaped, carved disks of (usually) calcite, up to 4 m (13 ft) in diameter.

hummmm.... a signal !

a ping... the most simple network packet in offline Bitcoin

a ping !

Bitcom

Monad / monoid

Tunnel / Pipe

html5 radio button

Your favorite OS...

You do like zero: "Next, about my identity. I proudly have exactly ZERO moral hazard. I have exactly ZERO conflict of interest. I am unaffiliated with ANY of the actors in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. There is exactly 0 person who knows who I am. Nobody has met me, nobody knows my voice, nobody funded me, I took donations from nobody, I have ZERO debts from anyone in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem, both figuratively and literally."

i attach an image to more clarify my explanation

It is a disk like an LP. Infact@unwriter looks like vintage stuff, his product design it is always kind of retro when it comes to visual expression. This disk keeps track of all the data signature of the user and the user can carry around to other platform one day. Pow proof of work and Ping the command of checking an IP on a network has the logo of a disk, because when you read the disk you can extrapolate the work made by an individual despite his many IP.

Hal

White hole of data (reverse of black hole)

An atom. It's the fundamental building block of a larger network. Powping a proof of offline payment channels as portable object type

An eclipse.

Obviously.

Inverted black hole representing light consuming all the darkness around it.

Record

Nice word@derekm ! (circumpunct) We put a bounty on it for you.

Meatus, obviously. (not yet defined in SLictionary but it should prove to be a VERY profitable word)

Circumpunct, the circle with a point in the center, the generative principle, aerial view of a phallic monument.

The counterpart of an eye. An inverted eye.