https://behest.io/#book: “„Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.“ ― Frank Herbert. Bitcoin scaling debates loom red hot over it and over us since the times after the First Halving. [..] The bigger problems we resolve, the bigger the gains. Big problems require big solutions. We live in a big universe and our very survival is dealing with bigger and bigger problems, that require bigger and bigger solutions to cope with. But nevertheless to build big is hard. It is a big problem on its own right, so we naturally prefer to create small things which can grow big. Small from point of view of both understandability and affordability to build. So, best fit are small solutions, cheap and easy to make, that scale out, unfold, unleash… up into big means to address and tackle big problems. Scaling is everything. [..] Scaling is Layering. [..] In ALL network contexts — delegate the task to that layer of the system which does the particular job best. We can generalize this into The Scaling Commandment. Only one’s enough: ‘’Thou shalt not jam it all into a single layer!’’ [..] In IT literature we usually meet this flooring as an abstraction layer. The “virtual” is also as “real” and physical as … a punch in the face. Abstraction is Implementation.” Refs.: https://behest.io/book/ref/06-SCALE
