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  • Oh, they can go in one sentence, if done right.
    Nano offers fast transactions on a decentralized network while using very little energy.
    Strictly speaking it’s not just one blockchain, but one per account, which only the account owner can update (add blocks to it).
    This asynchronous design is what makes Nano so fast, because there’s no need to wait for others when updating one’s own blockchain.
    What it doesn’t have (yet?) is a sufficiently large network effect, which it may never acquire.
    But it is one example of an attempt at making digital money based on blockchain technology, which is not just a copycat, scam, rugpull or other malicious nonsense.
    Monero comes to mind as well and maybe a handful others.
    Sadly almost all around blockchain is not just not innovative, but outright evil.




  • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldFoolproof
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    It’s less the motion of the atmosphere that causes the distortion, but rather differences in its temperature and hence the density of the air, which causes differences in the refraction index of the air along the way of the light.
    The variable refraction index makes it look like the atmosphere is moving though.
    But that’s the effect of the light not going in a straight line and not the cause of it.