The Position of IPSE

Thinking about the evolution of this world, in the 21st century, the causal mindset of the Newtonian world system has already been broken. The essence of complete decentralization is that each node maintains the same amount of information. Dr. Claude Elwood Shannon connects the world’s uncertainty and information in the book of Shannon Information Theory. Complete decentralization is equivalent to completely eliminating uncertainty and maintaining a low-entropy network system at the cost of high external energy input of the entire blockchain network. The evolution of the entire universe is a process of increasing entropy. If the earth is regarded as a system, in order to maintain its long-term low entropy state, the sun needs to input energy continuously, but the energy obtained and the amount of information obtained by each node inside the earth (such as the mainland) is not equal. If you think deeply about the mechanism behind this, there is no doubt that the process of evolution is not designed by humans, and many uncertainties are explaining one thing: a complex system. A completely decentralized Bitcoin network is not a complex system, and there is no order gap in all the nodes. Such a system must make us think of mechanical thinking.

From the speculative thinking and logical reasoning of ancient Greece to the invention and improvement of Euclidean, Ptolemy, Descartes and Newton, the mechanical thinking constructed by causal logic was once the commanding height of human thinking, and also gave birth to the 20th-century science building. The core of mechanical thinking can be summarized in three sentences. First, the changes in the world are certain. Second, the laws can be recognized and clearly described by simple formulas or languages. Third, the rules are universally applicable and can guide practice in the unknown. In short, mechanical thinking emphasizes certainty (predictability) and causality.

If there is a standard to be discussed in this debate about decentralization, then we will admire the Gilders Law, which proposes that the most successful business operation model means resources with the lowest price will be consumed as much as possible to save up more expensive resources. Corresponding to the decentralized thinking of the blockchain, resources will have prices, which means that nodes, as a resource for saving data, will also have a price, and the price will naturally have a higher or lower level, meaning that the saved data is not completely consistent, or at least the value is not consistent. The lowest price resource will be consumed as much as possible, that is, nodes that store low-value data will be sacrificed to the greatest extent, maintaining a low-entropy system by following Gilder’s law while keeping the overall input energy constant.

The above discussion is only the theoretical starting point of IPSE on decentralization. Specific to the technical details, we will use DPoS to build the main chain of IPSE, which is the transaction layer of the blockchain system, and then there will be application-specific blockchain technology to save data of different values while selecting the number of nodes according to the value. In this way, IPSE will be compromised in decentralization. Achieving structural decentralization and political decentralization and maintaining logical centralization. However, if you don’t just look at the main chain, and go deep inside the blockchain system, you will find that there will be many attempts to decentralize the subnetwork and maintain the low entropy state of the entire system with limited resource consumption.