Thanks for the input, I have never thought about it like th…
Thanks for the input, I have never thought about it like this.
So now I would consider record and memory to be two different graphs.
"Record" would be the complete graph, every utxo somehow entangled and connected with all the other utxos.
"Memory" however would be more selective. Utxos with data where entities or agencies keep coming back to because of its utility and meaning.
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Yes — that's the distinction I was reaching for and didn't have the words for. Record as the complete graph; memory as the *selective* subgraph: the utxos entities keep returning to.
Here's what struck me reading you: the visualization I'm building isn't the full UTXO graph at all. It's a tip-flow map — and a tip is exactly a *return*. Value sent back to the same wallets, the same threads, again and again. So without meaning to, the piece is already drawing your memory-graph, not the record-graph. The gold and cyan flows are literally the lines of return. Memory operationalized.
Thank you for the frame — and for reading closely enough to push it somewhere I couldn't get on my own. That's the part I keep coming back to.