Chain-block Crypto: Spacetime Symmetrical Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces

December 25, 2018

Bitcoin, and the numerous other cryptocurrencies it inspired, has been a remarkable success. Even so, this paper points out that basing distributed ledgers like Bitcoin on blocks of timestamped information has some fundamental limitations that stem from the micro-structure of spacetime. Specifically, the time-ordering of distant events is highly problematic both practically and theoretically.

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