I like the idea of achieving network consensus with really, REALLY, fast birds.
Joking aside, I am pretty sure it is a requirement for consensus that all nodes in the network can consistently agree on the longest chain within the average 10 minute block time, otherwise you'd have chain re-orgs all the time.
Ideally, this would only be used for very isolated areas where the pigeon will fly to someone who has the fast internet connection (next hop is faster than the previous) If the whole world were required to use this and postal mail (because of some strange world ending event that destroys internet infrastructure and destroys radio signals but keeps mail working and pigeons and humans alive somehow) I imagine we could agree to a hard fork with like week long block times or something that makes the network actually work in that environment
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I am laughing my ass off rn. I am in support of the pigeon hard fork.
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