# kaal:claim:3782210-034

**Claim.** Contemporary blockchains cannot support the proposed architecture because the technology is too slow and expensive to poll members on every transaction, and the messages required for all nodes to register all votes on every action multiply into an unmanageable number.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- blockchains as of writing, including Ethereum
- polling on every member action

**Source quote.**

> Voting is not efficient on contemporary blockchains.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Criticisms, page 14

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210

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**Failure mode.** On-chain voting inefficiency  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** blockchain, governance-design, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** blockchain-limits, voting-scalability, consensus-overhead, ethereum

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