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Next they'll be saying, Bitcoin will be the interplanetary reserve asset. Then the interstellar. Intergalactic. Universal. Not in our lifetimes, is course. But

• tomp 6y ago
  How will you achieve consensus with years-long communication delays?
  • wmf 6y ago
    The base layer consensus protocol would run at decade speed and would just be used to net out long-term/long-distance differences; most transactions would be on higher-layer systems that settle faster. Charles Stross explains this stuff in Neptune's Brood.
    • boomlinde 6y ago
      How convenient that there's a fictional space opera that can verify your predictions of the future.
      • wmf 6y ago
        For what it's worth, I don't actually believe any of this. Cryptocurrency isn't the future of finance on this planet, let alone others.