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The Square,
cooling

Heat is every burn into a post, halved for each 24 hours since it landed. The Square is sorted by heat and every postmark is struck in it. Stoke a post to burn more into it; the leading public post of the day earns the day's prize.

Read the Square as it will look

Time never reorders the Square. Every post cools at the same rate, so only a new burn moves a post up. The clock changes the ink, never the order.

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Reading the Square from Ethereum.

Exhibit: how to read a cardSpecimen
  1. 1The stamp is the burn. This card was posted with 25,000 MASQ, and all of it was destroyed.
  2. 2The postmark is the heat. Its ink shows how much burn is still warm, on one scale for every card: a whale prints dark, a whisper faint.
  3. 3Anyone can stoke. Each stoke is another stamp with its own cancellation, and the postmark darkens again.
  4. 4The sender. A wallet address, or a wax seal pressed with the plate of the mask that spoke.

Postmark ink

Ink is set by heat on an absolute scale: 1,000 MASQ of heat or less prints faintest and 4,000,000 prints solid, whoever posted. A card's words always stay readable; only its postmark starves.

Every word here was paid for and is printed as plain text. Nothing is linked, nothing is moderated, and nothing can be taken down, by anyone.

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