The team
FRODO
Carries the key. One credential, three modes, and nothing else to install.
SAMWISE
Carries everything else. The quotas, the clamps, the deadline that stops a hung generation billing forever.
GANDALF
Decides which road you take. A mode goes in, a model comes out, and you never see the map.
Before Bitcoin.
Cisco silkscreened a hobbit onto the Catalyst 3750 board in April 2003. The Bitcoin genesis block was mined in January 2009. He was in the machine first, and he never asked for a whitepaper.
#Next
- The model stack — what the three of them actually route
- The build — what lands next