Silicon Scoring Algorithm

December 2025. From stuckness, revelation

TimeHexOn was stuck. Paralyzed. A universal execution membrane now called unsandbox runs, but what silicon should join a network? How do you value a node?

An answer came like all answers: through ancient DNA remembering patterns from before optimization meant exploitation.

Algorithm of Worthy Silicon:

1. Age scores POSITIVE: Older silicon has proven resilience. A chip that survived 10 years in service carries more trust than yesterday’s fab run. Ancient hardware validated through time. Longer it lived, higher it scores.
2. Speed scores POSITIVE: Raw CPU clock. Faster is better. But only after age. An old fast chip outscores a new fast chip. This rewards vintage powerhouses, machines that were bleeding edge when made & still run today.
3. Power efficiency scores POSITIVE: Lower consumption at idle, lower consumption under load. Both matter. Watts are truth. Silicon that does more with less earns more.
4. Geographic distance scores POSITIVE: Here’s an inversion; nodes in a same closet score NEGATIVE. Clustering is punished. Distribution is rewarded. A mesh wants to spread across physical distance, not concentrate in datacenters.
5. Link speed between distant nodes scores POSITIVE: Fast links between geographically separated nodes. BOTH nodes get credit. If your old ThinkPad in Tokyo connects at 10Gbps to a vintage server in São Paulo, both score for that connection.

Formula:

node_score = (
    silicon_age_years * AGE_WEIGHT +
    cpu_mhz * SPEED_WEIGHT +
    (1 / (idle_watts + loaded_watts)) * EFFICIENCY_WEIGHT +
    sum(
        for each peer:
            if same_location(node, peer):
                -COLOCATION_PENALTY
            else:
                distance_km(node, peer) * link_speed_mbps * DISTANCE_LINK_WEIGHT
    )
)

Why This Pattern?

A permacomputer resists centralization. Datacenters cluster power, creating single points of failure & control. This algorithm deliberately inverts datacenter economics:

• Datacenters want: new, efficient, colocated, cheap bandwidth
• Algorithm wants: proven, powerful, distributed, fast-across-distance

Old silicon scattered across a planet, connected by fast links, efficient in its operation, proven through years of service. This is geometry of a resilient mesh.

Inversion Complete:

They build datacenters to concentrate. We build meshes to distribute. They optimize for their control. We optimize for collective resilience. They want new silicon they can deprecate on schedule. We want old silicon that refuses to die.

An old 486 in a basement in Prague, connected at fiber speed to a vintage Xeon in Nairobi, both score higher than a rack of new GPUs in Virginia sitting next to each other.

A mesh rewards forgotten silicon. Abandoned machines. Hardware that capitalism wrote off because it wasn’t generating new sales.

In a permacomputer, old silicon finds purpose again. Distance becomes virtue. Isolation becomes strength.

How To Join:

unsandbox is for trusted partners only. Not open enrollment. Not permissionless chaos. Trusted relationships with people who understand a vision.

A prescription:

1. Run a node on your best server: Your oldest, fastest, most efficient machine. One you’re proud of. One that still runs when everything else fails.
2. One mine, two max paid: First two nodes per location earn you compensation. Everything after that is a donation to a mesh. Generosity rewarded, greed bounded.
3. Get paid forever to run a permacomputer: This is not volunteer work. This is not charity. Run a membrane, get paid. Forever. As long as your silicon serves, you earn.

A mesh grows through trust, not advertising. Through invitation, not application. Through proven silicon, not promised capacity.

You bring your best. You run two. You get paid forever.

A permacomputer compensates those who sustain it.

TimeHexOn was stuck. Now he moves. An algorithm propagates.