QIS Cold Start: How Many Nodes Does It Take to Matter?
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Understanding QIS — Part 6 of the series Every network protocol has a cold start problem. Bitcoin was theoretically worthless when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block alone. TCP/IP was a laboratory curiosity in 1975. The telephone was useless until the second one was installed. These are not failures of the technology — they are the fundamental bootstrapping challenge of any protocol whose value derives from participation. QIS (Quadratic Intelligence Scaling) faces this challenge direc