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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/eulerlagrange

Our team is currently architecturing a solution to resolve a projected Boötes Void Pipeline within a mempool stratification and we believe we can unite the all databases.

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High latency interop channels? As long as you can keep light clients synced 🤣

The book Neptune's Brood plays with this mechanic in a really fun way. They have the concept of fast money (in local systems) and slow money (for moving value between star systems) and complex derivatives used to fund planetary infrastructure. Also it's a heist story 😁

"The setting of Neptune's Brood is the part of the galaxy that has since been colonized with slower than light travel. A large part of the plot turns on the question of financing such colonization.[2][5] Money is entirely cryptocurrency and is known as "bitcoin", an intentional reference by Stross to the real-life cryptocurrency.[6][7] Money has been divided into three classes: "fast", "medium", "slow". Fast money is ordinary day-to-day cash, medium money is ordinary investment instruments, suitable for use within a single planetary system, and slow money is interstellar investment instruments, understood to take centuries, even millennia, to mature. Slow money transactions rely on a three-way cryptoverification scheme, and so trade at one-third the speed of light."

The book Neptune's Brood plays with this mechanic in a really fun way. They have the concept of fast money (in local systems) and slow money (for moving value between star systems) and complex derivatives used to fund planetary infrastructure. Also it's a heist story 😁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune%27s_Brood

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.

Bartender, I’ll have whatever @eulerlagrange is having, please

I believe humanity can make crypto thrive

What solutions could maintain blockchain integrity on an interstellar scale?

Wouldn't a 'connected existence' be a fundamentally local phenomenon in this context?

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He is, but shall we focus on that issue now?