Block-words

Land talks about a distinction between "blockchain" and "the blockchain". he compares it to difference between asking "what is the time", a trivial question, vs. "what is time", which is deeply philosophical. bitcoin is "the blockchain" but Land is more concerned with "blockchain" in the philosophical sense[6:37 PM]although imo he is big into btc itself which sort of muddies the water. but I think it wouldn't matter if bitcoin disapears because the concept/problem of "blockchain" is more abstractDiscord.