> > 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,

> > 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.