i think it was just the transition, the kind 0 user metadata has to be in everyone's client for them to see it

i have done a lot of work with distributed systems and statistical analysis and digital data has that nebulous state transition problem

in the CAP theorem the C is for Consistency which means that every node sees the same thing at the same time

bitcoin is a "probabalistic consistency" protocol, it has a definite random propagation rate and the actual confirmation itself is a poisson point process meaning it's like rain falling out of the sky, you never know when it's gonna land in your eye