
The First Snow, and We Are Already Wishing for Spring
Spring at your fingertips, with your own eyes, warm, green, calm.
And the most difficult, let's wish each other, Damn it, honestly. Everything once...
Bitcoin, or other cryptocurrencies currently mined "from nowhere", will not reign in the imagination for long Homo sapiens. The gold rush will not leave us, but as always we will discover better "areas", full of big nuggets.
In this century, we will most likely see "watchcoins". A standardized measure of value in relation to the amount and length of attraction of other people's glances. This has been the valuation of media values for a long time. Even the largest nugget, as long as no one can see it, has a minimal impact on the environment. Just like hidden, inactive capital. Without "discovery", without the phase of disclosure, without perception, capital can remain a private belief, fantasy or memory. The number of other people's glances it attracts performs a function similar to that performed by Blockchain For cryptocurrencies.
As long as we die, time and its derivatives – like “watchtime” – will define the other values of the human world. Because it can't be fabricated. Although you can imagine bots designed only to imitate the human gaze and interest, just as you can print banknotes with any denomination.
The twentieth-century fashion for "picture phrase" (Iconic turn), or the discovery of the political power of social media at the beginning of the 21st century are just episodes from the prehistory of economic and political use Watchtime (Watchcoin).
Graphics: Wojciech Weiss, Radiant sunset, 1902, National Museum in Poznań and Spring, 1898, National Museum in Warsaw