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On the CAP theorem specifically, I refer you to:

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/why-global-tra...

I think you will find that if you think carefully the blockchain presents an opinionated solution to building useful globally distributed databases.

This breaks it down more explicitly. https://ancapalex.medium.com/a-cursory-introduction-to-byzan...

You actually have to think about this to understand it. From first principles.

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...but we already have useful, globally distributed databases that are vastly more efficient than blockchains, and have for a decade or so: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Bitcoin is 14 years old at this point. We are _not_ early. Surely if blockchains are as great as their proponents claim, at least one clever company would have done something unquestionably impressive with them? But maybe I'm the crazy one here.

(For context the time between the launch of Sputnik and the first commercial communications satellite, Intelsat I, was 8 years)

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