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by oblio 1305 days ago
> Obviously. That's why "this is new." Blockchains enforcing global consensus on a "total order" of unrelated events cannot: the laws of physics forbid it, besides it being wasteful and unnecessary. Holochain does not enforce such unnecessary "total order" consensus; it is not necessary, as it turns out, for maintaining state consistency in distributed systems. That is the breakthrough. This is a low-research "Bro" comment.

I really want to see the peer reviewed research published in respectable science publications.

Otherwise this stuff is a dime a dozen like battery breakthroughs.

This is the kind of thing that gets that person Nobel prizes and Turing awards.

Odds are 99.999999% that whoever's against this thing is right and it's just vaporware or dead ends somewhere months of years down the line.

In any case, go have fun meanwhile, any lesson is good, including about what NOT to do :-)