RE: Hive and Steemit - The Ultimate Tale Of History
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I really hope something like this never happens to the Hive Blockchain
it's plausible that could happen and not because of a hostile takeover. One scenario I can imagine is if a huge war happens or is expected to happen. "Our" Hive blockchain can run on the "global" internet but some geographic part of the world might cut the global internet off from inside their borders. The isolated Hive users can run their own Hive independantly due to the open source nature but once that war is over and borders open again the isolated version of Hive won't be canonical and it might be more trouble than its worth to try and figure out how to integrate the isolated Hive back into the original Hive's blockchain.
Like you I hope that doesn't happen but it's a possibility.
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Indeed friend war could actually lead to a repeat of this.. I guess this is the unfortunate side if Decentralization and open source
If you want to think about a more peaceful scenario there is space travel. If a user wanted to go to Mars and broadcast a transaction to the Hive blockchain on Earth it would take between 3 to 22 minutes for the transaction to complete due to the speed of light. Any server on Mars running the Hive blockchain would constantly be hundreds or over a thousand blocks out of sync. For interstellar transactions due to the 7 day payout window if you travel more than 112.7 billion miles from Earth any upvotes you do to posts published in this second will never reach Earth in time to count.
Every human colony in space might have its own Hive blockchain fork.
Since this reply is being posted on hiveme.me here's a relevant meme:
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Wow I finally understand the possibility of this happening. Thanks so much for all the help you've given me