RE: Splinterlands' Plans for the Upcoming Hive Fork
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Cross posting transactions wouldn't really serve any purpose or make anything easier. The transaction IDs, block IDs, timestamps, order, etc would all be different so the cross-posted transactions would not be usable for anything. IF a move happens, then it will just be such that all transactions before a certain date/time are stored on the Steem blockchain, and after then will be stored on the Hive blockchain.
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Wow, matt. Lots of people might want to read some thought of you on the HIVE. I checked your blog ~10 times the last 2 days.
I think it would still be of value to cross-post and have two different sidechains of Splinterlands as well, one for Steem and one for HIVE with corresponding tx ids linked, so that a switch from one chain to the other becomes trivial.
I think he's implying that it is already "trivial". It's just a matter of looking up the history on the right chain. No use in configuring a separate "side-chain" to cross-post to. That'd actually be more complicated.
So many things in the Splinterlands back end depend on the blockchain transaction ID that this wouldn't really help.
Makes sense from a technical standpoint :)
Will we get a version of Steem-Engine for HIVE?
This will be more complicated than just switching to Hive from fork time. It would require future nodes to run a Steem node up to the Splinterlands transition and then a Hive node. But if you go with Hive from the split, then only a Hive node would be sufficient to construct the Splinterlands ledger.
I think if you're confident enough that Hive will be the primary community chain going forward, you should consider switching. Perhaps shut down the splinterlands gameplay, i.e. maintenance mode on the day of the fork. I'd personally rather have a couple day outage compared to a much more difficult time in the future generating the Splinterlands ledger and determining consensus.