> The entire point of the definition of eventually consistency is that your
> computer system is running continously and DO NOT have a final state, and
> therefore you must be able to describe the behavior when your system either
> may give responses to queries across time that are either perfectly
To say that Bitcoin is strongly consistent is to say that the memory pool
and the last X blocks aren't part of Bitcoin. If you want to avoid making
that claim, you can at best argue that Bitcoin has both a strongly
consistent component AND an eventually consistent component.
The entire point of th
There seems to be a perception out there that Bitcoin is eventually
consistent. I wrote this post to describe why this perception is completely
false.
Bitcoin Guarantees Strong, not Eventual, Consistency
http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/03/01/bitcoin-guarantees-strong-not-eventual-consistency/