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Good comment on testnet. From what I understand, I don't think that's all the plan for the these clusters. Otherwise, why do they specify this? > When two clus

by a1371 5y ago

Good comment on testnet. From what I understand, I don't think that's all the plan for the these clusters. Otherwise, why do they specify this? > When two clusters share a common genesis block, they attempt to converge. More importantly, the cluster is only 150 validators: > A Solana cluster is capable of subsecond confirmation for up to 150 nodes with plans to scale up to hundreds of thousands of nodes. This is not comparable to Mempool where it is in your best interest to broadcast a transaction across the network. Yes, everyone sees the mempool but it doesn't allow you to manipulate transaction order as long as the original sender has paid a high enough fee.

anonymoushn 5y ago
> > When two clusters share a common genesis block, they attempt to converge. This is a situation analogous to conflicting chains during a bitcoin block reorg, made more complex by the fact that validators have opinions about which other validators they are in a cluster with. > More importantly, the cluster is only 150 validators: > > A Solana cluster is capable of subsecond confirmation for up to 150 nodes with plans to scale up to hundreds of thousands of nodes. It's like 700 currently. Larger validator sets lead to logarithmically slower confirmations. At the time that doc was written, one point on that curve was (150 validators, 1 second) or so.