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Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] by realsunnyg on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:11PM (#24378930)
That isn’t the trilemma - it’s decentralization, scalability and global state.
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Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] by neosat on Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:45AM (#24381463)
That's true for distributed computing in general so it has nothing specifically to do with the blockchain protocol itself.
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Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] by MrXOR on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:17PM (#24378974)
Global state? Please explain more.
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Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] by vishnugupta on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:44PM (#24379180)
Perhaps they meant global consensus?
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Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] by hinkley on Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:20AM (#24381390)
How is global consensus not global state?

What are we consensing on, if not a mutually agreeable set of facts (state) that we can use as a basis for future decisions?

If the answer is “nothing” then you by definition have a toy, not a tool.

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Re:What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf] by pfraze on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:47PM (#24380754)
I suspect they’re referring to how some blockchains (eg ethereum) are using sharing and lightning to scale
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