#                  ₿itc0in pUrge

By [shreme](https://paragraph.com/@shreme) · 2025-05-02

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**₿lockchain & Entr0py**
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**What is entropy?**

Entropy is the ratio of **order:disorder @ any given point in time,** during the initial stages of any new creation order is maximum & disorder is at it’s minimum. As the creation ages order gets minimal & disorder gets maximum & eventually it dies.

As the blockchain protocol’s data bloat & complexity grows over time, it results in increased entropy. It will eventually lead to aging & death as every other living organism in this planet.

Bloat & complexity happens as historical data accumulates & as new feature upgrades.

> **Historical data**: any transaction made and any account created at any point in history needs to be stored by all clients forever, and downloaded by any new clients making a full sync to the network. This causes client load and sync time to keep increasing over time, even as the chain's capacity remains the same.
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> **Protocol features**: it's much easier to add a new feature than to remove an old one, causing code complexity to increase over time.

Let me give an example the taproot script feature upgrade resulted in an unintended consequence of the memecoin bloat.

If ₿itcoin has to survive as a store of value like gold across space & time it has to minimize complexity & bloat without comprising permanence. It can be achieved by minimizing client storage requirement of every node & by minimizing protocol complexity by keeping features simple & minimal.

**_Divine simplicity is the staircase to immutability & immortality._**

### **Reverse Entropy**

Reverse entropy is the technique employed by a mythical bird Ph0enix. As the bird ages it purges itself with fire & it’s reborn from its ashes.

If ₿itcoin has to survive across space & time it has it employ reverse entropy by **_purging itself of arbitrary data blobs as time progress & by keeping an immutable copy of Unspent UTX0s._**

**References**

[https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/26/futures5.html](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/26/futures5.html)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy)

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*Originally published on [shreme](https://paragraph.com/@shreme/itc0in-purge)*