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by realsunnyg 2118 days ago
That isn’t the trilemma - it’s decentralization, scalability and global state.
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That's true for distributed computing in general so it has nothing specifically to do with the blockchain protocol itself.
Global state? Please explain more.
Perhaps they meant global consensus?
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.

I suspect they’re referring to how some blockchains (eg ethereum) are using sharing and lightning to scale