Except the mining process follows a Poisson distribution; the "tick" is a random variable. The next block could arrive in 1 second or 1 hour, which proves the network operates in a continuous space, not a discrete temporal unit.

Good! I’m glad this paper woke him up. If this paper serves as shift in conservation and investment of time for the broad community, I’ll call it a win. I’m excited to see if the community will find consensus on anything we wrote, and what others will produce on top of the work. The direction...