Relativity, aka pre-blockchain cosmology. ...
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... Solve the Byzantine Generals' Problem, and absolute succession is back. ...
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But absolute succession already occurs. Different observers disagree on clock state, not world state.
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They do agree on clock state: observer A can calculate what observer B thinks the clock is without asking.
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Both can calculate the other's clock. The other's clock is different from theirs. When did the event occur?
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Answer: Time is reference frame dependent.
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Yet there's reliable consensus on the order of blocks on the chain, so what gives? ...
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... Clearly Nakamoto Consensus practically resolves the relativistic quandary. (No "spacetime" necessary.)
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... I extended across the astronomical distances, the synthetic time atom of the "block" needs expanding. ...
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... So interstellar blockchains are infeasible. Reality speciation replaces universal spacetime cosmology.
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Consensus can't be derived faster than local information propagation.
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Agreed.
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