the longer I run my gnosis node, watching the rhythm in the logs, I realise that blockchains are clocks. 

time-stamping, monotonic counting, synchronisation

there is an apparent magic going on, which makes me wonder about the cosmological implications
 
at epoch 1005056 my validator is part of a sync committee🕺

unreal reality  /misha 🪨 mishaderidder.eth.limo glitch.mishaderidder.com 

Yes. Jack Mallers did a keynote speech at recent Bitcoin conference on this exact topic. Sorry, I can’t remember where / when.