I'm not really the best teacher on this planet. Sometimes when I communicate, it might not come out as clearly as intended. @durzo wanted some clarification regarding some of the ideas I've presented in my last post which you can read Here. I must say that I'm not a programmer or cryptographer. I'm just a highschool dropout self-learning and creating content on the internet. So approach my above mentioned post as brain food than a whitepaper.

A Hierarchy of Self-Purging Blockchains

My original idea was developed as a method to use blockchain based E-Sports that are immune to cheating. If you had sub second blocks in a sharded match where you play something like LOL or DOTA 2 where each action in game is recorded in a blockchain, we've got something awesome. We have a 100% fair and cheat free platform. But League of Legends passed 27 million daily players 4 years ago. Storing all that game data is a waste. At the end of each game you just need to know a few things. You need an immutable and fair record to get to those final stats but after that 99.999% of data will be simply useless stuff that just fill up memory. What we really need is those final results.

What is the Bottom line of a Crypto "Currency"?

Now tell me how many STEEM blocks can you make while BTC make one block? When Buttcoin isn't going through a flippening, the answer is 200. Let's assume that all Tx are fund transfers and most accounts get involved in multiple TX within those 10 mins (like @blocktrades @minnowbooster etc). What if you could simply enter the net effect of those multiple Tx into the "Block". That would clear up some space.

This is the idea I wanted to present. When a single account gets involved in multiple Tx in a X amount of time, storing all those individual Tx takes up necessary space. This is when the hierarchy comes in. What if you could analyse every set of 200 STEEM/BTS blocks and summerize the net effect of those Tx in a single super block. After the creation of this super block and adding it to its own blockchain, you can delete those 200 blocks which had 3 second block times.

The blockchain with 10 minute blocks can have a higher level blockchain which has 24 hour blocks (1 super block per 144 lower level blocks). This makes the memory issue of on-chain scaling completely disappear. With monthly blocks, one would be able to scale on chain with a memory card while having 1,000,000 Tx/s It's a simple and elegant solution. The tough part would be making sure that nothing gets tampered in the process of super-block creation. If anybody can pull that off the only primary scaling problem would be reducing the block time and having more Tx/s

Hopefully I did a good job at getting across my ideas :-) Until next time,
Happy steeming!