Solana (SOL)

i know it may be surprising to ppl but i actually spend a lot of time looking at the market and deciding which coins i believe will run, i bought a lot of memes when i started looking at solana again bc i thought bottom was close and believed onchain would heat up again when it eventually started its uptrend, similarly to what happened prior cycles, some of them were older memes, some of them were newer memes

for a memecoin to do well it needs a community of people who are both good at making content and also good at going viral while also being generally likable to the average person, all three of these things are important, as well as how relatable the meme is to people - there are a few memes who have ppl that are just too negative for the coin to ever do well, and there are some memes that are just not relatable to your average person imo

i did not hard shill any of them and wanted to see which ones would show the most market strength, some did some didn't, a lot of the older memes that people have been

The bandwidth latency tradeoff:

Solana blocks are split into FEC sets, each of these sets is broadcast through rotor/turbine. Turbine splits FEC set into 32 pieces and then adds 32 more shreds containing erasure coding to form 64 shreds then sends each of these shreds out to the validator set through a specific randomly chosen turbine path.

How long does it take for each FEC set to get from the leader to a specific validator over turbine?

Because of erasure coding, the validator does not need every shred. It only needs enough distinct shreds to decode.

In the simple 32-of-64 case, the leader sends 64 shreds, but a validator only needs any 32 of them. So the slowest 32 paths do not matter for decoding.

We can model this mathematically: for validator i, define Lᵢ as the latency distribution induced by:

leader → random root → validator i

where the root is sampled according to stake. (this is technically rotor not turbine but its just a simplification, you can do the same trick for turbine but the equat