What is the fastest blocktime you think we can get with performance controlled hallmarked servers?
That depends upon the network topology which isn't even known - basically you'd have to measure these things "in the wild" to even roughly work this out.
P.S. Is the internet inside China also slow, or is it just going in and out of the Great fireWall of China that is slow?
Our TV has WiFi and we can watch high quality movies here (many for free) so inside of China it is very fast (am only using 2M standard home connection).
That GCF is mostly automated now btw and does detect encrypted traffic (which is generally when it "slams on the brakes") and it gets "smarter" every year (most standard VPS services don't work here now).
Since we are doing 60 second blocks now, it seems that speeding it up to 30 second blocks shouldnt be too hard. Probably 10 seconds will require using just hallmarked nodes with guaranteed high speed access. Sounds like for China, there would need to be a few special tunneling servers. Not great from centralization, but as long as traffic inside China is fast, we can bridge (tunnel) it to the faster internet outside of China.
Last I heard, NXT block content is not encrypted, if this is the case that sounds like it is a good thing for China. If some AM's are encrypted do you think that would trigger GCF?
James
