Seems to me it wouldn’t be that hard to test out these fast-blockchain claims. Set up a few hundred public-cloud hosts around the world and send a few thousand TPS at them, see what happens. They’re all open-source AFAIK. But it would cost some real money.
Tim Bray @timbray
2 Sep 2020
For the record, I’ve been pointed at 3 blockchain implementations which claim high scalability: * Nano en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(… * Avalanche semanticscholar.org/paper/Sn… * Solana solana.com Note that all involve a cryptocurrency. I have not verified any of these claims.
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Replying to @timbray
That would prove that they can handle the scale, but not that they preserve their guarantees (provided they even know what they are). You’d have to run something like @aphyr’s jepsen.io at scale.

Sep 2, 2020 · 7:18 PM UTC
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