From Consensus to Causality: The Physics behind Quai Network
For most of the cryptocurrency industry, consensus is an engineering challenge. How do thousands of computers scattered across the globe agree on the order of transactions without trusting a central authority? The question has produced Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, rollups, committees, and increasingly complex governance systems. But what if consensus is not fundamentally a software problem at all? That was the premise floated during a recent Quai Network Tech AMA, where conversations about ...
From Consensus to Causality: The Physics behind Quai Network
For most of the cryptocurrency industry, consensus is an engineering challenge. How do thousands of computers scattered across the globe agree on the order of transactions without trusting a central authority? The question has produced Proof of Work, Proof of Stake, rollups, committees, and increasingly complex governance systems. But what if consensus is not fundamentally a software problem at all? That was the premise floated during a recent Quai Network Tech AMA, where conversations about ...
Energy Is Money: Inside the Proof-of-Work Re-ignition + Rethinking the Supposed Trilemma Ceiling
For more than a decade, the blockchain trilemma has functioned more like a constitution and less like a hypothesis. It meant being able to pick only two from decentralization, security, and scalability. Every major design decision in crypto has been built on the assumption that this trade-off is fundamental. And so, Proof-of-stake chains sacrificed decentralization for speed. Layer 2s sacrificed some security guarantees for scale. Bitcoin held the line on decentralization and security and sim...
Energy Is Money: Inside the Proof-of-Work Re-ignition + Rethinking the Supposed Trilemma Ceiling
For more than a decade, the blockchain trilemma has functioned more like a constitution and less like a hypothesis. It meant being able to pick only two from decentralization, security, and scalability. Every major design decision in crypto has been built on the assumption that this trade-off is fundamental. And so, Proof-of-stake chains sacrificed decentralization for speed. Layer 2s sacrificed some security guarantees for scale. Bitcoin held the line on decentralization and security and sim...
