Yet your example is not one of them - with accounts, the sequence of states must converge on a consistent history as they recede into the past. Eventual consis

Yet your example is not one of them - with accounts, the sequence of states must converge on a consistent history as they recede into the past. Eventual consistency comes with it own set of counter-intuitives, and is a multiplier of possible states a system could be in. it is generally not a complication we would choose, but something we must cope with to do things that would otherwise not be feasible.