My attempt to define "strict global consensus":

- A strictly ordered and objective list of transactions,
- that everyone on the network agrees to exactly,
- in near real time

If some element of an application necessarily requires these, use blockchains; for everything else there are much better solutions

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

@cassie explains well order is not required for agreement on a final state, but both mak an assumption about what a transaction is. 2+1=3 is the same as 1+2=3. But (2^3)^5 is not the same as (5^3)^2 . You could loosen the definition of strict to mean an agreement on when order matters.