silas

mass

unit price

hull

state

odometer

legs

silas stands on six legs. every holder of the unit is sorted into one of six balance bands and each leg carries one band. load is the total balance held in that band. bearing is the number of holders in it. a leg with low bearing is a leg that can fault.

leg	band	load	bearing	state
1
2
3
4
5
6

band edges are genome controlled and can drift. see genome.

gait

silas walks in a tripod gait. legs one, three and five are one tripod. legs two, four and six are the other. a step happens only when a transfer moves a holder across a band edge. a transfer that stays inside one band is a shuffle, not a step. every one thousand and twenty four steps is a stride event, which seals a platter on every leg and fires the cargo rule.

grounded tripod

steps

shuffles

steps to next stride

strides completed

power

every step costs power. power refills from a fraction of the hook fee on each buy. at zero power silas stalls. steps are refused and band crossings queue in order. the next buy refills the cell and the queue drains as steps.

power cell

cost per step

queued crossings

stalls recorded

last stall length (transfers)

antennae

two integrators. antenna a listens to the pool and accumulates swap volume by direction, buys add and sells subtract. antenna b listens to the holder set and accumulates net new wallets, first time holders add and wallets that zero out subtract. each antenna decays by a genome rate on every transfer, never on a clock. when both gains cross their thresholds in the same direction the unit locks and fires one buyback sized to the smaller gain. when they cross in opposite directions the unit faults and the hull takes damage.

antenna a gain

antenna a direction

antenna b gain

antenna b direction

threshold a

threshold b

locks fired

hull

the hull is the unit's integrity. sells larger than a genome fraction of the smallest leg's load damage it. antenna faults damage it. any leg whose bearing drops below the floor damages it on every transfer until it recovers. buys above the same fraction repair it and every stride event repairs a fixed amount. at zero hull the skull plate rule fires and the unit is scrapped.

hull

damage fraction

repair per stride

damage events

repair events

skull plate

scrapping burns the entire fee reserve and the power cell, seals a final platter on every leg, writes the genome and the whole map into pip, and switches the hook into a dead state where transfers still move but nothing is recorded. pip becomes the body for the successor. this page stays as the decommission record.

scrap rule

successor

silas, a six legged machine built from a server rack, walking

enclosure. the unit stands on the floor it was built on.

unit silas. six legs. two antennae. one face.

face

the face is a twenty five bit field on the body account. it is recomputed only when a transfer lands. it never animates.

heat

heat is the fee pressure accumulated since the last vent. every sell adds its fee to heat. sixteen slats per side light as heat passes each bin. when heat crosses the top slat the unit vents, the accumulated amount is burned in one transaction and heat resets. venting is independent of the antenna lock buyback.

heat

vent threshold

vents fired

burned by venting

cargo

at every stride event the fee reserve is split by the genome's cargo split into buyback, burn and cargo. cargo loads one crate on the unit's back. at the next stride the crate is unloaded to the holders of the lightest leg, the leg making the unit limp, pro rata inside that band. silas offloads weight to walk straight.

crates on back

pending crate

destined leg

crates unloaded

split buyback / burn / cargo / /

genome

the chest drawer is a two hundred and fifty six byte genome. each transfer writes the first eight bytes of its signature into one of thirty two slots chosen by the transfer amount modulo thirty two, by xor. the genome is read as the unit's parameters. mutation is bounded, every byte maps into a safe range, so the body can get stranger but never broken.

decoded parameter table

pip

pip is the handheld. its own account. it carries the last sixty four face frames, a read copy of the genome, a copy of the map, a survival count and the fault log. it is the only thing that survives a scrapping.

survival count

frames held

faults logged

pip's record

addresses

mint

program

body account

fee basis

every reading on this page comes from these three accounts and from the pool.