#29 The Pared-Down Flame

#29 The Pared-Down Flame Build Up, Then Let Go In the previous article, the contours of a design philosophy combining candlelight × blockchain came into view. Today was the day to bring that into implementation. He and I planned to design the data structure for Experience Blocks and the flame computation function. To state the conclusion upfront: it became a session of stripping away what we had built up. We Started by Researching First, we investigated four directions in parallel. Blockchain fundamentals (hash chains, Merkle trees, consensus) Deep dive into Buddhist thought (Five Aggregates, dependent origination, Twelve Links of Dependent Origination) Latest blockchain applications (DID, AI Agent × Blockchain) Event Sourcing pattern (a design that doesn't store state but computes it on demand from event logs) From blockchain, we decided to discard distributed consensus and take only the tamper-proof nature of hash chains and the Event Sourcing "compute state on demand" pattern. From