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Notes from building chains, bridges and the systems around them.
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- Every project is a distributed system Keeping a project's decisions in step runs into the same trade-off as keeping copies of data in step.
- Coordination without certainty Getting many agents to act together is one of the oldest puzzles there is. We've been working out our own answer.
- Costly honesty Anyone can say their work is good. What people believe is what would have been expensive to say if it weren't true.
- When the number becomes the target A price is a measurement. Once money depends on it, someone will try to move the measurement instead of the thing.
- Deposits, votes and lots Every network has to decide who runs it. It's an old political question in new clothes.
- The ring of Gyges An old story asks whether anyone is good when no one is watching. We try to make the question not matter.
- A world you can throw away Some things can't be undone. So we do them first somewhere that doesn't matter.
- The ship of Theseus, migrated Moving a system is an old puzzle about identity. We've found the answer is something you decide beforehand.