The Internet Computer in a world of modular blockchains

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Question about ICP's subnet design

Consensus comes with a lot of overhead if you want to achieve Byzantine Fault Tolerance. The number of messages per canister can vary a lot between different canisters and over time. Therefore we decided to batch messages for sets of canisters hosted on the same subnet and let them share the overhead. You are right, different canisters have different requirements wrt replication, storage etc, … At the moment, developers cannot choose between different subnet types, however we are working on br…