{"id":918,"date":"2019-08-13T03:50:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/org.saito.tech\/?p=918"},"modified":"2022-04-29T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:00:00","slug":"no-room-for-tourists-what-the-movie-inception-can-teach-us-about-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saito.tech\/no-room-for-tourists-what-the-movie-inception-can-teach-us-about-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"What Inception can teach us about blockchain."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most people believe that scaling a blockchain is a technical problem. This isn&#8217;t at all true \u2014&nbsp;the problem is economic. This can be hard to understand in a world where the dominant way of understanding blockchain comes from computer scientists who do not engage with the economics and have no idea how to scale economic systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this short presentation &#8212; and in tribute to the director whose name is honored as the smallest unit of Saito (&#8220;the Nolan&#8221;)  &#8212; we offer a better way to think about these problems. This method is the same approach to problem solving used in the film <em>Inception<\/em>, which is why our video starts by exploring some of the more subtle themes in Nolan&#8217;s masterpiece before using them to explain how to scale a blockchain without adding poisonous trade-offs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking about actual economics is always a challenge in the blockchain space, but more and more people are aware there is a solution to scaling, and this is it. If you&#8217;ve got questions, suggestions or feedback on the video or the solution it offers please feel welcome to get in touch \u2014 you can find us most days in the Saito <a href=\"\/\/t.me\/joinchat\/BOSYOk_BR8HIqp-scldlEA\">Telegram<\/a> or <a href=\"\/\/discordapp.com\/invite\/2KbHYrX\">Discord<\/a> groups, or hanging out on Saito in our <a href=\"\/\/apps.saito.network\/arcade\">Blockchain Arcade<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Saito Crypto - How Inception Fixes the Infura Problem\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJGuxcEvats?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people believe that scaling a blockchain is a technical problem. 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