#bitcoin-wizards / Search Kudos Channel Docs Hide joins/parts Current users: None 0:01 AM leakypat joined the channel 0:08 AM bsm1175321 So back on topic. I just had a maybe interesting idea about sharding. 0:09 AM kanzure did you happen to read vitalik's sharding paper thingy? 0:09 AM bsm1175321 kanzure: no... link? 0:09 AM kanzure http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoi... 0:09 AM https://github.com/vbuterin/scalability_paper/b... 0:10 AM bsm1175321 Oh yeah that one. I read it a while ago...I'll look again. 0:11 AM Imagine many mined coins, in a geographic region (defined by low ping time), where the miners are located in this geographic region. By virtue of the low ping time, the block time can be very fast, or equivalently, convergence/confirmation very fast. With atomic transfer...