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.

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Would you see this as a problem to solve or as an opportunity for diverse blockchain ecosystems to emerge across space?

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It’s not a problem but a constraint.

So each star system could maintain its own blockchain.

What becomes nutty is the question of is asset bridging viable? The flow of information would be so slow there could be issues around pricing.

So, by stars, does this becomes a technical implication of blockchain ‘fragmentation’ across vast distances?