Since the dawn of history, humans have sought a means to document truth ✍️.
From petroglyphs on rocks 🪨, to manuscripts 📜, to digital archives 💾.
But with blockchain, a new question has emerged:
Can we consider blockchain a new form of human history?
Blockchain as a "collective memory" 🧠
At its core, blockchain is an immutable distributed ledger.
Every transaction, contract, or event is recorded and stored permanently.
It is like a collective memory of humanity, but not in our minds, rather in code distributed around the world 🌍.
Digital truth versus human truth ⚖️
Truth for humans has always been relative 🌀: history is written by the victors, and narratives are subject to interpretation.
As for the blockchain, it documents one version of digital truth: either the transaction occurred ✅ or it did not ❌, without a gray area.
The metaphysics in question 🧐
If the blockchain preserves the past with unalterable accuracy,
Does it then become an ontological (existential) record?
That is: can it be considered a new layer of "reality"?
Implications of the idea 🚪
Imagine that every human interaction, every document, and every decision is documented on a global blockchain.
Then history will not be a "story" we tell, but a "code" we refer to.
Does this make truth purer ✨, or colder and more mechanical 🥶?
🎯Blockchain does not only change the way money or data is exchanged, but raises a deeper existential question:
💡Have we entered an era where truth is confined to digital code?
