Particle Chain: A New Kind of Blockchain
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Trust, _and understand_.
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by Breck Yunits
 https://twitter.com/breckyunits Breck Yunits
September 1, 2024

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Is there a better way to build a blockchain? Yes.

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 A Particle Chain is a single plain text document of particles encoded in Particle Syntax with new transactions at the top of the document and an ID generated from the hash of the previous transaction.

> Particle Chain is a syntax-free storage format for the base layer of a blockchain to increase trust among non-expert users without sacrificing one iota of capabilities. A Particle Chain can be grokked by >10x as many people, thus leading to an order of magnitude increase in trust and developers on a chain.

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RPM
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R(C) =  P(C) \times M(C)

Reliability(Chain) =  Particles(Chain) * Mirrors(Chain)

RPM states that $R$, the reliability of a chain, is the number of particles $P$ times the number of independent mirrors of the chain $M$.

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Reliability(Chain) =  Particles(Chain) \times Mirrors(Chain)

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Chains that are mirrored more with more history are more reliable.

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Implementing
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The chain itself is encoded in Particles (Particle Syntax) which could be done with pen and paper, though for more utility it is recommended to build a digital Particle Chain 😉.
 https://particles.scroll.pub/ Particle Syntax

For implementing a digital Particle Chain, the Parsers Programming Language (or a similar compiler compiler and virtual machine) may be used.
 https://pldb.io/concepts/parsers.html Parsers Programming Language

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All existing chains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and NEAR could be converted to a Particle Chain in a straightforward manner.

New chains would likely want to build on a Particle Chain from the start.

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Notes
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Livestream creation of this post
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vQuCGCYPM Livestream creation of this post

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