Bitcoin Beef Bits on Nostr: About 5,000 years before Bitcoin Beef Bits, the Sumerians were preserving meat with ...
About 5,000 years before Bitcoin Beef Bits, the Sumerians were preserving meat with salt and sun between the Tigris and Euphrates, and the clay tablets they left behind include some of the earliest food preservation instructions ever recorded by anyone.
Five thousand years later, the principle is exactly the same. We swapped the Mesopotamian sun for Bitcoin miner heat, but the principle hasn't changed. Only the heat source has. ☀️⚡
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2026-03-11 12:38:53 UTCEvent JSON
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