How fast is safe network

[JPL]

This post and subsequent ones in this thread may help re race conditions. Seems that data chains will be part of the solution.

@neo

Data chains ensure a requester gets the latest version of the MD in case some nodes have not yet updated the MD. IE avoiding race conditions etc

Monetary value as data object or projection of ledger entries

A few times now, I have in my explorations of SAFE come back to safecoin and transactions. I thought I’d offload my thinking here, put it to print, and hopefully get some new angles. The differences between representing a coin with a data object, and as the result of ledger entries, seems to result in some differences in what we can do. Maybe my appreciation of the issue is disproportionate, maybe I am seeing a very small slice of the problem (well, more than likely that would be the case). Bu…