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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It is a kind of Alrenous's mutually calculated meta-state.
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Reality speciation is guaranteed at some sufficient scale due to light cones.
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If you far-flung participants maintain protocol consistency, high latency communication isn't prohibitive.
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That seems massively improbable to me. High latency is a mind-shatterer.
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Thus (partly) why the millenarian avouts are so cool: nigh temporally impervious social tech.
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Practically speaking, I can imagine scaling incentives such that cross-party stake matches the difficulty.
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