What I’m Not Building

What I’m Not Building

Author: Shobikhul Irfan
Closing of the series: Redefining Proof of Work #part6

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This series is not a product announcement.

I am not:

launching a mainnet,

selling a token,

opening a mining pool,

or promising financial returns.

That is intentional.

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What I’m Not Claiming to Have Built

I do not claim to have built:

a production-ready consensus protocol,

a “proven superior” PoW algorithm,

an ASIC-proof system,

or a final solution to the blockchain trilemma.

If you are looking for:

“code you can deploy tomorrow”
this is not that post.

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What I Am Actually Doing

I am making a simple intellectual claim:

Proof of Work does not have to mean hash lotteries.

And that:

Verifiable Distributed Work
is a legitimate framework
for exploring the future of PoW.

Sorting Race is merely:

an example,

a thinking tool,

and an existence proof.

Not a final destination.

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Why Not Build Immediately?

Because technology history shows that:

ideas die from premature implementation,

discussions collapse into bug-hunting,

and inventors lose their claims by locking designs too early.

I chose to:

publish the idea before building the system.

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Closing

If this idea is:

wrong → refute it structurally

weak → ignore it

interesting → build upon it

I am not asking for permission.
I am simply recording that:

this idea was proposed,
publicly,
at a specific point in time.