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Could this be used in a large crowd? Such as a protest, or a concert? What are the scaling limitations? How does a message decide to stop propagating - would
by VikingCoder 11y ago
Could this be used in a large crowd? Such as a protest, or a concert? What are the scaling limitations? How does a message decide to stop propagating - wouldn't it just circle around a large crowd indefinitely?
- Kadin 11y agoI'm also curious how they decide to expire messages out of the database. Presumably each device doesn't carry around every message ever sent since the beginning of time; that doesn't seem like it would scale well.
- vox_mollis 11y agoAnd yet, everyone thinks bitcoin will scale just fine.
- Pharaoh2 11y agoNot every bitcoin client needs to carry the whole blockchain for bitcoin to work.
- VikingCoder 11y agoStep one, here's how you can implement this wonderful protocol! Step two... here's how you can hamstring the protocol, so you can use it in real life. Hey - are we losing any of the benefits of the ideal protocol when we hamstring it? SHHHHHHH!