Quote from: monsterer on March 03, 2016, 11:21:42 AM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on March 03, 2016, 11:19:19 AM

That doesn't matter (or actually it makes the problem I explained more obvious). The script validation and the gas spend confirmation must be atomic, which means they must be confirmed in the same partition, else validation can not be partitioned per the logic I already explained.

They will be - the gas is paid inside the same transaction which invokes the script?

edit: but, of course that does invoke the horror of double spends - since partitions are necessarily separate and unaware of each other, I can spend the same gas in multiple partitions at the same time.

You got it with your edit.

Of course the virtual machine assumes they are atomic as you first stated, but the reality of the sharding is they can't be.

Building the virtual machine was the fun, easy part. The consensus scaling was the hard part which they should have done first even before raising ICO money. That is disgraceful.