Science

Blockchains are fundamentally a local phenomenon wrt astronomy.

The speed of light poses issues with synchronizing state across large distances.

So if we proliferate the universe, crypto will be fractured.

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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I believe this is one of the goals of IPC (InterPlanetary Consensus).

But also, speed of light on earth guarantees causal islands of various sizes based on your latency/liveness demands. So it’s even a problem here.

Most systems need to accommodate eventual consistency on some scale.