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@july
How to build interplanetary blockchains? - What happens when latency is in the order of minutes, hours between ? - How do you build consensus? - Do individual planets just have their own chain?
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@eddieosh
Might need to build on quantum entanglement to overcome the latency problem of distance.
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vincent
@pixel
Not a physicist or anything, but in Three-Body Problem, sophons were sent to earth to have "instant communication channel." Perhaps that can be used, and it's triggered whenever a chain updates - kind of like webhooks but intergalactic.
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Alex Palmer
@thatalexpalmer.eth
@perl Fascinating questions & answers.
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Diego Basch
@dbasch
Before the how, I would ask the why. Of all the potential problems awaiting human civilization if we ever become an interplanetary species, why is having shared blockchains a concern at all? What problem do you envision these blockchains would solve?
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
The biggest hurdle above all is coordinating around the same time. Throw local frame of reference out the window, and coordinate via a mutually agreed VDF. That won’t fix the latency problem, but now you have provable sequencing. Given no matter how consistent the hardware, you also have relativity to contend with
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@qualia
barring some sort of ansible that communicates faster than light, you would have to have each planet be one chain
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Liam Arbuckle
@la7
@perl There is a never-ending need for humanity - and perhaps others - to be continuously connected.
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@novack
Relay satellites
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@nicovrg
to answer that question i'd look into ipfs design & cosmos hub thesis
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Nick DeNuzzo
@metsguy
I personally believe that future tech will recognize and leverage consciousness as a core technology that is not constrained by traditional issues of distance and time. Interconnected Consciousness = future blockchain networks. The hermetica and the kaybalion allude to this.
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