Ellie
@ellied
Name a crypto-related technical concept that can't be explained using an analogy to mail. I'll wait.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Hmm, let's try: Automated market makers, single slot finality, utxo, reorgs, hierarchical deterministic key derivation paths (BIP32).
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Ellie
@ellied
There could be some analogies here, I think! SSF is like mail today - once you receive it you always have it. Reorgs would be like if the post office delivered your mail, and then came back later and demanded it back. BIP32 is like an address. The top level key is the country, followed by states as children. The states have cities as children, the cities have zip codes, etc. Eventually you end up with each leaf in the tree representing a specific address. Since this tree represents all the addresses that exist, you can derive a specific address using the root (country) + path.
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