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[At which point world builder brain piped up and was like "hey it works essentially like crypto! magic compatible!"]

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With the right finger movements, you can braid your thoughts or truss up secrets so tightly that nobody can extract them from you.

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e.g. depending on how the knots work (can you exchange them and expect decryption to work the same?) you can implement different schemes

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by giving away the knots (which look like wristbands when the secret is fully entangled) you can implement secret escrow and OTP

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I imagine merchant guilds and bankers would be right behind that and implement various baroque schemes, maybe even smart contracts

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avoids most of the icky math that underlies actual crypto, so it is no reader kryptonite. and different enough to not be cyberpunk pastiche.

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you are so cool, thank you for your tweets