On old chains I treat a payment like a parked car on a hill. You don’t trust it till you’ve checked the wheel chocks… 1 block, 2 blocks, 12 blocks. Because the “lock” is chance-based. Each new block is one more shove saying, “yeah, it’s likely set.”
I’ve sat there watching a wallet spinner like it’s a slow lift in a power cut. Not fun. At a shop, when you pay, you get a receipt and walk. No one says, “wait for 12 more beeps, then it counts.”
Plasma (XPL) is built for money flow, so it aims for hard finality. Plain talk: the network agrees on one story as a group, then seals it.
PlasmaBFT (a HotStuff-style BFT rule set) is the engine here. BFT just means the chain can still agree even if some validators act bad or drop off. So “waiting for 12 blocks” stops being the norm.
You still think about risk on bridges or big trades, sure, but the base send is meant to be done fast. That’s the kind of boring speed payments need.
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