ahem is this thing still on
hi there ppl long time no post
ok so i’d thought today i’d just write a bit about some insane bullshit i think about when im high at the gym
so one of mishkas favorite sci-fi series is Hyperion by Dan Simmons. one of the central themes of the work is relativity and how time is dialated across light years, ppl in generation ships living and dying for centuries being front-ran by ppl finally discovering FTL travel and such. whole sub-species of human forking from base homo sapiens becuz planetary environment/gravity after centuries of isolation. v good book, would reccomend.
mishka thinks this novel sparked an interest for something like teh blockchainz. each tx hash happening in the span of millisecond, whole worlds/spaces/platforms having their economy denominated by photons flying around at the speed of light. is v cool imo. mishka thought they could take a look at some weird causality/time stuff happening on teh chainz.
one of the first topics of disscussion for BerkeleyX blockchain technologies course that mishka finished recently was BFT and synchronization of nodes in a distriubuted system. as you can see from above image, it’s not so simple. mishka no physicist but the diagrams reminds them of behavior of sub-atomic particles. optimizing your smart contract for big O time v much complex with this, thankfully ppl v much smarter than mishka built concurrency and async code that we can use.
forks of popular projects and how they become even more popular than the original and the resulting ecosystem is v interesting to mishka as well. think of how many ohm forks are out there? what…like 7 across all chains? now think of how much they have for tvl…
say what you will about (3,3) and flywheel something something vote bribing self_suck_elephant.jpeg but mishka thinks optimistic tit-for-tat is v important for an mental model of the game theory of cryptoeconomics. ohm was able to bring this to the table. them being forked and these forks proliferating are p interesting particurally in emerging multi-chain enviroment. all of this (3,3) and coordination within this template is v web3, but is that a good thing?
the non-determinstic property of all the bridging and idiosyncronicietes of different chains/l2s is sure to result in odd stuff, we might see some ohm fork somewhere else besides og ohm become more popular/frontrun everyone else. this coupled with something like a futarchy that could potentinally bribed…is good or bad?
vitalik writes about how vote bribing and such could (it did btw example curve wars) have weird behavior here (particurally im posting about portions on prediction markets)
ok i suppose thats it dfor now i just wanted to post about interesting stuff. please read hyperion its a good book