“Bits do not naturally have Colour. Colour, in this sense, is not part of the natural universe. Most importantly, you cannot look at bits and observe what Colour they are. I encountered an amusing example of bit Colour recently: one of my friends was talking about how he’d performed John Cage’s famous silent musical composition 4'33” for MP3. Okay, we said, (paraphrasing the conversation here) so you took an appropriate-sized file of zeroes out of /dev/zero and compressed that with an MP3 compressor? No, no, he said. If I did that, it wouldn’t really be 4'33" because to perform the composition, you have to make the silence in a certain way, according to the rules laid down by the composer. It’s not just four minutes and thirty-three seconds of any old silence.“
Oleg Andreev
Software designer with focus on user experience and security.
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Product architect at Chain.
Author of Gitbox version control app.
Author of CoreBitcoin, a Bitcoin toolkit for Objective-C.
Author of BTCRuby, a Bitcoin toolkit for Ruby.
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