A Rusty Blockchain, Almost Too Literally

Description

The image is a close-up photo of a heavy rusted metal chain lying across a corroded rectangular industrial block, with blurred machinery in the background. There is no visible overlaid text in the image; the sibling metadata caption says, "Block chain with rust or something, idk." The meme is a literal visual pun on "blockchain" and "Rust", replacing distributed ledgers and a systems programming language with an actual rusty chain on a block. Its developer humor comes from collapsing overloaded technical buzzwords into their physical, non-technical meanings.

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Finally, a blockchain in Rust where ownership is obvious and the only unsafe block is tetanus.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Finally, a blockchain in Rust where ownership is obvious and the only unsafe block is tetanus.
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

Lmao
@denushev 4y

yes 🗿
@SamsonovAnton 4y

At first, I read "with trust", and my thought was: "How this obviously unreliable piece of crap can be trusted?"