Serenity below sounds like IP VLAN address allocation? you manage your allocated ranges assigned to you by an organization, which fit in with the whole global IPv4/IPv6 range. IPv6 being the expanded range as IPv4 is running out of spares.
On 6 May 2016 at 15:25, Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org> wrote: > > > Rob can you say more about the Casper algorithm? > > Oops I meant Serenity (so. many. codenames.). Here's a technical > description: > > https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/53 > > The problem it addresses is that, as any Bitcoin hater will tell you, > "the blockchain doesn't scale". Rather than try to make it quicker or > more efficient to fetch and store all the information needed to keep > track of the state of the entire world('s worth of transactions) every > ten seconds, Serenity makes it so that you only have to keep track of > the subset of the world('s transactions) that you are interested in for > your own security. > > These subsets of the world('s transactions) are known as "shards", a > term taken from traditional databases. Each shard, and the code and > value within it, is isolated from the others unless it takes special > measures to access them. This means that you only need the data for the > shard you are working within, not any others. > > If the classic blockchain looks like a post-relativistic universe with a > unified/God's-eye view of the information it contains, a sharded > blockchain looks very much relativistic with local frames of reference. > Local rather than global truth. But the information contained within > each shard must ultimately be reconcilable with the global state. Where > communication takes place across shards, it cannot contradict the state > of the contents of either shard. > > So I may be overreaching, but I think this is a nice example of a system > that is locally specific but globally reconcilable. Which obviously > relates to philosophy of science and to neo-rationalism. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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