OUR MAYAN LEGACY

The esteemed Mayan astronomers left us with little human traces, but they did leave us some monumental artefacts in the shape of calendars. For this discussion we mention two of them, the 5100+ year calendar and the 260-day calendar. We surely found out about their proposed reset of the 5100+ calendar to happen in 2012, generally believed to be the winter solstice. Their 260-day calendar is also called the 20-13 calendar because it’s made up of 20-day months in a series of 13 months. Currently there are 4 different proposed staring dates for the new 5100+ calendar, so for the purposes of this prose-byte let's stick with the more mathematically elegant version that starts on the first day of 20-13.

BITCOIN'S MAYAN BIRTHDAYS

And so, let's apply the same logic to the birth pangs of bitcoin. Bitcoin was conceived in secret sometime during 2007 and birthed into the rarefied atmosphere of cypherpunkspace on 3rd Jan 2009, that's day 101 of cycle minus 6 relative to cycle zero starting 1st Jan 2013. Satoshi had a consuming interest in legacy banking , so much so that s/he coded this cryptic message in the genesis block:

This becomes somewhat less cryptic when we read further:

The Chancellor will decide within weeks whether to pump billions more into the economy as evidence mounts that the £37 billion part-nationalisation last year has failed to keep credit flowing. Options include cash injections, offering banks cheaper state guarantees to raise money privately or buying up “toxic assets” , The Times has learnt. [could Satoshi have surmised that this quoted figure of £37 billion would be just a touch over the current market cap of bitcoin-BCH the to-be-forked version of bitcoin less than 8 years in the future?]

Fast forward to 1st august 2017

That was the day when the bitcoin chain divided into chain BTC and chain BCH after bitcoin blank created its historic block #478,558 that would soon be shared by both chains. So soon after, we witnessed the inauguration of two new chains both with their new genesis mark II blocks. And any doubter could take notice that after several hours block #478559 on chain-BCH checked in at over 1 meg, while it could be seen that during those quiet few hours on the nascent BCH chain, chain-BTC had been chugging merrily onwards first creating its genesis mark II block #478559 and subsequently generating new blocks every 10 minutes or so all checking in as usual with a size equal or less to the authorized 1 meg. And to mark the occasion, The Guardian [UK] ran a full-page article in its financial section entitled ...

"all eyes on the real-world ascent of digital currencies"

delving deeper we read ...

" Russia's deputy finance minister, recently said they hope to recognise bitcoin and other cryptos as legal financial instruments next year"

MOSTLY 500% INCREASE DURING A MAYAN CYCLE

We've plotted how the price has moved over the cycles of the Mayan calendar and there are some interesting correlations between the number of elapsed days from the sync. point and the prices on that day as shown in green on the chart, the final one being our projection. As with most sync points we need to work backwards with the gift of hindsight. On the 1st august 2017 and the 23rd December 2017, we can notice two such noteworthy correlations, so we worked backwards from that date as shown in the chart.

Looking at the results we see 2 cycles where the price decreased by 62% and 65%, but apart from those, all the other cycles since the $13 mark have given us an average of 500% increase in price. So, extrapolating, that gives us an anticipated price of $35k on the 9th September 2018. Of course, time will tell if this correlation will withstand the rigors of the upcoming cycle....

MAYAN MATHS

Why 260 days we may ask. Well there are good reasons for that...

1) THE 26,000-YEAR[approx.] PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES

or axial precession is the wobble of the earth, where one wobble completes in approximately 26,000 years. The duration of one wobble is vary across the ages somewhere between 25,765 and 26,000. This gives us 2 different ways to measure a year, the tropical and the sidereal, one currently measured as 20 minutes different from the other.

2) SERIES OF CIVILIZATIONS IN 2,600-YEAR [approx.] CHUNKS .

Now as we speak, we're in the midst of building a new series based on the truth and transparency of the blockchain technologies. The previous series of civilizations was kick-started by this experienced team of 13 avatars, over a century, 651 BCE until 551 BCE, given here with their approx. years of birth ....

Bias of Priene, 651 Zarathustra , 651 Cleobulus of Lindos, 649 Chilon of Sparta, 649 Pittacus of Mytilene, 640 Solon of Athens, 631 Gautama Buddha , 630 Periander of Corinth, 627 Thales of Miletus, 624 Pherecydes of Syros, 618 Pythagoras , 608 Lao Tzu , 600 Confucius , 551

3) MAYAN / HUMAN CYCLE OF 260-DAYS [precise] .

The medical figure for human gestation is 273 days. However, if we consider the first 13 days as somewhat experimental, then we could say that day 14 is decision day.... will the blastocyst hatch out of the zona and seek shelter under the wall of the uterus, or will it fail nature's QA and be discarded in the monthly menses? By we're reading this, it's safe to assume that we did indeed pass Nature's Quality Assurance and merrily completed the 260-day course of gestation in the uterus. This means that when we finally emerged into the unfamiliar atmosphere of mostly nitrogen, we are already celebrating our first Mayan birthday aged one cycle on that calendar.

4) OUR SPECIAL 26-DAY [precise] PERIOD