Exploring the Universe of Blockchain Protocols

Since the emergence of Bitcoin to the current development of the Blockchain industry, its inherent technological and financial attributes have become one of the most important research directions. The fintech sector has also flourished as a result. Setting aside market fluctuations, we explore the nature of the Blockchain protocol from a cosmological perspective.

Protocols in the Universe

Modern cosmological theories suggest that from the Big Bang to the emergence of human beings on Earth, countless cycles have occurred. With our current understanding, we are unable to speculate on what happened during this process, nor can we find any relevant records. We can only explore the mysteries of the universe by studying the physical laws on Earth and developing technology.

Why can the universe be seen as a protocol? The Milky Way has a poor rotation, with the solar system revolving around the center of the Milky Way and the Earth revolving around the Sun. For billions of years, some force, magnetic field, or dark matter not yet understood by humans has balanced the movements between various galaxies and celestial bodies. This seems to have reached some kind of consensus, forming a certain order, naturally established in the universe, creating rules, standards, and agreements.

Human Imagination

The Earth has evolved from its initial harsh environment into a habitat on which humanity relies, similarly following a certain protocol, naturally evolving forests, oxygen, minerals, mountains, rivers, and so on.

In the evolution of the human species, imagination continually expands our horizons. From the perspective of biological evolution, the emergence of Homo sapiens 250,000 years ago from single-celled organisms caused other hominid species to gradually lose their competitive edge. Modern humans are the descendants of this branch of Homo sapiens. Subsequently, we developed language, family structures, institutions, currency, nations, globalization, the internet, etc., discovering the cosmos through the study of physical laws. These concepts have transformed from imagination into reality, becoming everything around us through continuous practical verification. Each individual is an experimenter in this process, validating our imagination.

A renowned historian examines human groups from a god's-eye view in his work, believing that our world is essentially imagined by humanity itself. Each of us is striving for the world we have imagined for ourselves. As per current global understanding, no other species possesses such a rich imaginative world apart from humans.

Blockchain Protocol

Humanity has gone through a long process from the Shell Age to the Digital Age. During the Internet era, we had the HTTP protocol. In the digital realm, a protocol is defined as the rules, standards, or agreements established for data exchange in a network, used for communication between entities in different systems.

For two entities to communicate, they must have a "common language" and must adhere to certain rules regarding the content, method, and timing of the communication. These rules are known as the protocol. In simple terms, a protocol is a set of rules that governs data exchange between two entities. In electronic communication connections, each different layer has its own protocol.

Blockchain, as an extension of the Internet, or rather, it was the birth of Bitcoin that truly ushered in the era of Web 3.0. The transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 upgrades the data exchange rules to value exchange rules, marking a paradigm shift from the mobile Internet to the value Internet, as well as a paradigm shift from centralized rules to decentralized rules.

Conclusion

The research of a large-scale blockchain project must go through repeated refinements at the protocol layer in its early stages. Just like the primal chaotic period of the universe, the protocol is extremely insecure and cannot be controlled by anyone. After billions of years of games, a certain balance is reached to form the appearance we see. Changing a certain balance or protocol standard of the universe would consume enormous energy and incur great costs.

The birth of the Bitcoin protocol is characterized by such features. As it has developed, no one can control it; fork attacks are merely the natural force of mathematical algorithms in the world of Bitcoin. Over time, this protocol has become more secure and steadfast, operating automatically. To make changes would incur huge costs and consequences.

Blockchain practitioners should think more about protocols rather than products in order to stand on the shoulders of Bitcoin and promote the development of the blockchain industry.