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The funny thing about every comment which positively mentions Nano is the writer invariably has zero idea what tradeoffs are made in the consensus protocol to make it faster. There are no free lunches in distributed systems which must contend with byzantine failures.


You've succinctly captured exactly how I feel when I hear people mention nano, so thank you for that.


Pray enlighten us.




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