Analogy with toll highway: sharding and restrictions in TON
In the comments to the post, a great analogy to what's going on was born.
Let's imagine a toll multilane highway. On this highway, each TON blockchain shard can be compared to a separate lane of traffic. Under normal circumstances, a highway can effectively handle a large flow of cars by spreading them across multiple lanes.
However, if all cars are traveling in one lane (one sharding), congestion naturally forms. The TON initially uses sharding, but when too much traffic piles up in one shard, the queue starts.
The TON Foundation saw this problem and proposed a solution, "Let's implement a limit on the number of cars in a single lane." They implement a single lane limit. Now, when one lane is congested, traffic begins to spread out over the other lanes, reducing congestion.
Then there are "elite" cars - users with high demands on speed and volume (spammers). When they get too many, the TON Foundation imposes a speed limit on those cars so they don't interfere with other road users, and slows them down. For respect other 900M users.
Finally, the TON Foundation turns to the "road builders" who maintain the highway and says, "Your pavement is in bad shape. Either you repair it or we will apply penalties." This is comparable to the requirements to update and maintain the blockchain infrastructure (validators).
In the end, the toll highway, despite all the restrictions and measures imposed, becomes no better than an ordinary road. It begs the question: why pay more when the backbone doesn't offer significant advantages over free alternatives? 🙂
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In the comments to the post, a great analogy to what's going on was born.
Let's imagine a toll multilane highway. On this highway, each TON blockchain shard can be compared to a separate lane of traffic. Under normal circumstances, a highway can effectively handle a large flow of cars by spreading them across multiple lanes.
However, if all cars are traveling in one lane (one sharding), congestion naturally forms. The TON initially uses sharding, but when too much traffic piles up in one shard, the queue starts.
The TON Foundation saw this problem and proposed a solution, "Let's implement a limit on the number of cars in a single lane." They implement a single lane limit. Now, when one lane is congested, traffic begins to spread out over the other lanes, reducing congestion.
Then there are "elite" cars - users with high demands on speed and volume (spammers). When they get too many, the TON Foundation imposes a speed limit on those cars so they don't interfere with other road users, and slows them down. For respect other 900M users.
Finally, the TON Foundation turns to the "road builders" who maintain the highway and says, "Your pavement is in bad shape. Either you repair it or we will apply penalties." This is comparable to the requirements to update and maintain the blockchain infrastructure (validators).
In the end, the toll highway, despite all the restrictions and measures imposed, becomes no better than an ordinary road. It begs the question: why pay more when the backbone doesn't offer significant advantages over free alternatives? 🙂
@investkingyru | @investkingyru_en | twitter | CMC | Private, Elite
$KINGY: DEX DeDust.io, STON.fi, Swap.Coffee and xRocket.