Before most people go into quarantine they buy water or toilet paper. We bought a huge lump of clay. I wasn't sure what we were going to do with it but we wanted to make that clay come to life. Maybe you remember the story of Gumby. He was once a little green slab of clay. But the magic worked and he started to walk and talk and jump and play.
Anyone with a heart and an imagination and a lump of clay can make that clay come to life. My little creation is a Koala named Koko. I kept him around for a couple of days during quarantine and then turned him into something else.
It started from a cold hard hunk. We took to the clay rubbing it and kneading it to make the clay soft and warm. At first it was like a rock in some parts. It took a lot of finger strength to make it smooth and workable. My oldest son liked to make clay statues similar to Keith Haring style.
They are kind of like a fat stick figure with a round head. The one he is working on here is named "Sir Butterknife". He is one of the knights of the Clay Table. His quest is to ride to the Island of Spam and slice it.
My youngest son tried to decorate the island with clumps of clay that he called "sky scrapers". He then dug tunnels for his match box cars and called it Clayhattan Island. He also made a snake that crawled up besides the Koala figure.
When it was drying up we tried to mix more water but then the clay was more sloppy to use. My youngest son thought he was crushing grapes to make wine. They tried to use a hanger to make a skeleton support but what they got turned out more like a Swamp Monster.
We have been watching "The Secrets of Sulphur Springs" and were inspired by Mold Man to make some sort of swamp thing. We just call it Swamp Thing.
So I gave you a nice set up.
Are you hungry for the punchline already? You deserve a punchline.
Swamp Thing is cute but he is not the punchline. This is all just part of the set up.
Guess what? I'm just going to lead you into more set up. I am going to speak out of my ass about the genesis of crypto.
Very much like our clay structures, crypto originates from the dust of code. Together that dust combines to form a block of code. Like our islands are connected, a blockchain is distributed by shared nodes on a computer. In the Hive blockchain we see that witnesses keep those nodes running. In our clay city we see a very simple pattern of buildings and structures stored in clay. But on the blockchain information is stored in a digital format through code.
In our clay island we have roads and tunnels and plays to keep toy cars. In the block chain we have the ability to store information. It becomes a decentralized immutable record of transactions. One big difference between a clay database and a blockchain database is the way in which a blockchain is structured. Clay structures can be built and torn down or mixed with water. Block chains store information until they are full and then they are locked. You can't just add water and make Swamp Monsters with block chains.
The greatest similarities between our clay island and the blockchain is Sir Butterknife himself.
On our Clay Island the Spam is cut with a knife and fried by Sir Butterknife.
On the blockchain the Spam is forked and fried.
This is the wonder of open source.
You might have noticed the Leo finance tag in this post. It's not tag spam. It's spam art. All of Hive could use less spam and more spam art. If you are going to write BS about crypto then please at least make it interesting.
Knead I say anything more.
