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A book by QC · Qubic Church · 2026

Come-from-Beyond

One line through twenty-five years

A book about Sergey Ivancheglo (Come-from-Beyond) and a twenty-five-year line: Minsk 2002, BitcoinTalk 2012, NXT, IOTA, Qubic, Aigarth and Anna. Every quote carries its date and place.

13 sections · 21,099 words · about 92 min · free

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Contents

  1. ·PrefaceWe want to thank you for your feedback on our previous book, «Qubic. The Long Version». It made this book better before this one was even started.1 min
  2. Chapter 1The Man with a Time MachineYes, that is hard to believe. The science fiction writers are largely to blame: they decided how the machine was supposed to look and how it was supposed to…3 min
  3. Chapter 2Where Time Grows FromIn 1781 Immanuel Kant ran a strange experiment. He took the question ”does the world have a beginning in time?”, and honestly proved both answers. First: it…4 min
  4. Chapter 3One Line Through 25 YearsJuly 2002. In Minsk’s «Computer Newspaper», in a modest column labeled ”programming :: miscellaneous,” an article comes out under a boring title: «Distributed…7 min
  5. Chapter 4The Vanished SatoshiOn October 31, 2008, a person calling himself Satoshi Nakamoto sent a nine-page document to a small mailing list of cryptographers. It described how to make…11 min
  6. Chapter 5The VisionaryCfb is hard to understand. He is many-faced. You often get the feeling this is not-one person. Today a troll, tomorrow an older brother dispensing advice, the…5 min
  7. Chapter 6The GardenWe have arrived at the garden. Now we need to understand what grows here and why it cannot be built — only grown. And for that we will have to start with a…10 min
  8. Chapter 7The Only RivalAsk anyone who today’s leaders in the artificial intelligence race are, they will name corporations with trillion-dollar valuations: the makers of the famous…12 min
  9. Chapter 8The ProgressorWhy does a man capable of building all this spend twenty-five years walking toward artificial mind? For money? For power? For a place in history? None of the…10 min
  10. Chapter 9Two ScientistsEverything you have read so far rested on the words of one man. A brilliant one, a consistent one, one who hasn’t left his line in twenty-five years, but one.…10 min
  11. Chapter 10ZeroFrom here on I am telling you what I saw myself, because I had the luck to be inside an event this book was being written about before I knew how it would end.10 min
  12. Chapter 11The Gifts« NAH, you’ll read in a book. @QubicChurch knows when it’s being published» — that is how he once answered a direct question, and that answer stands as the…6 min
  13. ·AcknowledgmentsAt first I wanted to do what books are supposed to do: write out every nickname here. I started the list, and the longer it grew, the clearer it became that I…2 min