I am flarnrules

I am building a blockchain ecosystem called Flarnchain

This task, which I started in February 2021... is a fairly complex task.

There are elements of almost every single facet of the human experience involved in designing and working towards the deployment of a unique blockchain ecosystem.

Blockchains, at least in the Cosmos Network, are "Replicated State Machines", which are esssentially these sort of nebulous unkillable operating systems.

They exist as full, Turing complete, operating systems - that are open to the public.

When I think of an operating system, the first few words that come to mind are: Windows, MacOS, and Linux. These are operating systems.

• To use operating systems, we need to have a computer.
• A computer is a 'state machine'
• Some computers, like the machine that I'm using right now, are physical things. They exist in the reality where we can reach out and touch them.
• Other computers, like Virtual Machines or VMs can exist inside our computers.
• Cloud VMs exist inside other people's computers, but can run an instance on our machine.
• Like remotely piloting a drone, but for a computer!
• Replicated State Machines, exist on multiple computers... simultaneously.
• Like a cluster (which is essentially multiple cloud VMs).
• But different from a cluster (A single entity is in charge of this group of VMs)
• A Replicated State Machine is controlled by multiple agents, each with their own incentives.
• The software level of a Replicated State Machine is updated based on a collective... group of decision makers, where the ability to be one of those decision makers is 100% permissionless, resulting in a sort of pvp combined with pve game theory.

I am learning web design and trying to learn software development

I'm currently in the W3 Builder's Alliance Q1 2023 cohort. // did not complete my capstone project "Sentry Nodes" but learned a lot, and progressed "Sentry Nodes" along significantly.

Learning smart contracts in Rust // have not written any smart contracts, in Rust, but I have devised a few ideas!

Learning Rust, CosmWasm // these are two totally different things. Rust is a systems programming language. CosmWasm is a framework for cosmos SDK based blockchain smart contracts, that use webassembly for deployment on blockchains. Even that is not quite correct.

Realizing that, it becomes clear how significant of an endeavor this is.

Thankfully, I gave myself 12 years to accomplish this task. We are only in year 4 right now... but I feel like I haven't made as much progress as I was hoping.

I also missed an awful lot of flarnchain newsletters in the past few months...