Yes, you can go that direction as well, although in a decentralized architecture there’s no shared notion of “coming online”. For example: 1. you have four pe

Yes, you can go that direction as well, although in a decentralized architecture there’s no shared notion of “coming online”. For example: 1. you have four peers collaborating on a document 2. for some extended period peer A only communicates with peer B and peer C only communicates with peer D (and vice versa) 3. the peers truncate the operations at some point within that period 4. each pair of peers now has a document irreconcilable with the other even though all peers “came online” recently