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Wow, that's super interesting, I've never heard about something like that proposed before. Same protocol, but layered and sharded, basically.
by augustl 9y ago
Wow, that's super interesting, I've never heard about something like that proposed before. Same protocol, but layered and sharded, basically.
- NotUsingLinux 9y agoEthereum sharding? https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ
- Buttes 9y agoThe Ethereum guys proposed something like this in a super long rambling document with lots of made up terminology [1] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ
- AluminiumPoint 9y agoYeah! We can also do 'cross chain atomic swaps'; A trustless tx that allows two chains to agree on a price. Either both sides claim it, or the money is returned to its sender.
- sudoscript 9y agoCheck out Ethereum's Plasma proposal: plasma.io. It's a similar concept. I'd describe it as tree of blockchains with MapReduce for state transitions and merkle trees for proofs.
- markjkowalski 9y agoIsn't that what sharded databases do?
- corford 9y agoThere are quite a few projects working on "cross-chain" solutions: https://cosmos.network https://cosmos.network https://ark.io https://ark.io https://omg.omise.co https://omg.omise.co And more