Did you know that there are 14 supernodes that form the beating heart of Monero’s network?
Listen closely and you will hear their tune.
Can you hear it?
As soon as you get your node online, they are never very far away.
Look at your friends, look at the friends of your friends. You have already found a few of them!
Watch! They sing sweet, and most importantly, they open their ears and listen to the songs of so many of their friends.
Without tiring, time and time again, they meet new friends and let those new friends start singing, joining the chorale.
You see, that is actually what makes them special. They unselfishly open their ears to listen to so many friends.
Too few are the friends willing and ready to do that nowadays…
They sing sweet, and you know them directly, or your friends know them.
Don’t be shy, you can get closer and watch them all chant. That’s the song I was talking about earlier.
If you ask me, this is the heartbeat of the network.
How do I know all that, you ask? The sorceress of the High Rains showed it all to me.
Mind you, I can’t do that kind of divination, I am a priest of the degen spirit.
I was the Monerokon powwow, and many priests, sorcerers and magicians were coming off their trances
to show us the results of their divinations. It was magnificent!
You weren’t there, it seems. That’s ok. Just come one of the next times.
Anyway, you are lucky. Our sorceress of the High Rains even made a picture, just so you can admire them every time you feel like it.
Here, take a look. Aren’t they beautiful?
Fascinating! Isn’t it? They look like 14 beating hearts of the network, 14 unsung champions of the symphony. They lead the chorale and give the rhythm of the spectacle.
They are important. Maybe, too important? In a way, this play starts to look quite fragile, doesn’t it? What would happen if one of them stopped singing and listening? What would happen if all of them stopped? Would that be the end? Would the little nodes be forever cut off from their friends in other neighborhoods? Would the whole symphony just stop and disintegrate into noise and chaos?
I am also a bit worried about that. Don’t worry, the sorceress of the High Rains assured me that the network’s symphony is robust, and I shouldn’t worry too much for now.
Still, I would feel better, and it would be better if me too, I could get in with my little node, open my ears to listen, just like them, and sing with all my little voice.
You can join me, you know?
Most little friends in the chorale don’t know how to listen, they can only sing.
We have to show them how to listen. When they see us do it, they will learn and start listening too!
Let’s make our little nodes, let them listen to their friends, let them sing, let the music play on, let the music take control…
From the Sorceress of the High Rains:
https://arxiv.org/html/2504.15986v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2504.17809v1
I don’t know if AI has achieved sentience, I am not convinced we could philosophically identify a relevant division point at all between sentient and non-sentient entities, all I know is A.I. is drunk.
“A.I is drunk” is a intriguing theme.
Imagine fighting the Terminator, but you know it’s just an LLM, drunk on power, always hallucinating, and shooting targets that do not exist.
You are not even sure if it will achieve destroying humans before destroying itself…
In any case, no A.I. was used to make this story. I wrote it myself.
Please have a look at my other stories, on arseneoaa.me, I am looking for feedback on how to improve them.