Rudiments of Blockchain systems on a philosophical perspective

If the world was a distributed system...

As a firm enthusiast of ecology and thinker, I kind of want to share my ideological perspectives regarding origin of systems, and the underlying problems .

Consider this universe as a complex consolidation of various entities. In this case, our universe becomes a macrocosm, and each human is a subsystem independent of each other. We establish relationships, through communication and interaction. This thought brings to the table a major existential social upheaval: reason for existence because distributed systems usually have a common goal. Since we are dealing with large scale and independent ecosystems, there's a need for globalization. This bears some great resemblance to networking of autonomous nodes.

Control...
Systems, sub-systems, systems of sub-systems... need control, and not just any control, but concurrency control. In this case, a system failure should be able to be identified easily and corrective measures taken. This introduces the need for Byzantine regulation, because the world we live is not a perfect world. We develop standards and tools for control during regulation. We establish relationships that make us identify these faults. We simply introduce interdependence. Could the death of an ecosystem mean the death of another? Well, that depends on the complexity of the relationship. Monitoring systems in this case brings up a political aspect, and the methods involved resemble consensus mechanisms.

Assess the reproductive capabilities of the systems
When two ecosystems coexist, they could possibly lead to the introduction of a new system. An example is the direct correlation between a child and two parents.

Root
Decentralization has been a key factor when it comes to building a blockchain consortium. Such ecosystems become firm, and become censorship proof. In this case, they cannot be controlled by a single entity, like a government. Cryptocurrencies are online community assets. But does decentralization take systems to a primitive age where regulation, is a lacking factor. Is giving up your CPU power, disk storage or any other resource, at the expense of social scalability a huge risk. Why are cryptocurrencies a huge threat to the US Dollar?

In introducing you to distributed systems, we face three major issues of concern: concurrency of individual entities, lack of a global clock, and byzantine faults, which we shall discuss in the next episode.