Me obeying Parkinson's law: the main question that bugs me about the blockchain is why we use the definite article for it.
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is there a history of that argument leading to that grammar?
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also the blockchain is being forked constantly so in a way there's lots. It's just the longest consensus one that's "the blockchain"
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i.e. Islands separated by voltage/frequency standards barriers with non-trivial, non-transparent conversion unlike tcp/ip
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yeah that sounds about right. You can transfer but not built-in, need an exchange
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might go deeper. By Mundell-Fleming analogy, perhaps impossible to unify all blockchains en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundell–Fleming_model
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