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What sacrifies Bitcoin? It seems to be always available and always consistent.
by eimrine 3y ago
What sacrifies Bitcoin? It seems to be always available and always consistent.
- Rexxar 3y agoPartition
- dartos 3y agoIt’s not consistent. It takes time for all nodes to come to agreement and in that time I am able to request _technically_ out of date info from a node. Consistency is often the one CAP that isn’t prioritized because if the network isn’t consistent for a few seconds, the application probably still works and that’s the case for bitcoin. The network is “eventually consistent”