Rather than just keeping track of transactions, what if nodes began to log events that are linked to specific times and have a cause-and-effect relationship?
Each event could look something like this: system_start....device_start....hash....previous_hash....time_stamp......... signature.
Since you posted in Bitcoin discussion board
It means you might be talking about Bitcoin.
What ever would be created would not be Bitcoin
Bitcoin is first money and other things are secondary
So transactions are S part
Let's not talk about how double spending would be prevented
In case of conflicting events.
No, youre not quite right. The use of Bitcoin as a financial instrument is the result of narrowing the scope to a single application. Bitcoins architecture was designed as a system that records incoming and outgoing parameters and the events that led to specific transactions. Roughly speaking, Bitcoin is a primitive use of blockchain. The architecture allows various events to be recorded in blocks, and money (transactions) is merely one of many types of data recorded.
Am sure the existence of Bitcoin would be threatened because it is built based on the need for personal control and privacy, hence the term decentralization.
There would be a lot of foreseeable context and action, with AI agents and autonomous systems built in replacement of the decentralized systems. There would be no need for auditing but more of querying of events to get specifics would exist and this abandons the trust the decentralized systems have existed to fill.
Why would requesting information undermine trust? A node may reject a request if the owner (user) deems it necessary; each node has the right to choose whether or not to respond to a request. Furthermore, each node is as autonomous and anonymous as possible, and features multiple quantum security and routing protocols on each individual node.
Maybe I'm just unfamiliar with it, but how exactly will this work? What's the definition of transaction here? Why you write it money (transaction)? If a user wants to send money from address A to B, wouldn't they have to make transactions and publish it to the network still? How exactly will this affect miners or the network in general?
Your diagram is not clear?
However, your title says what happens if you go to event-based memory?
Because if event-based memory is created, every transaction event will be created in this memory, which can create security complications in the concept of memory.
This is definitely related to data, so privacy issues need to be considered here!
Nothing 'evolves' following the wrong path,. It degenerates instead, considering that to evolve basically means transforming from lower to higher state.
Evolution theorists do not factor the fact that things were designed to serve particular roles or follow certain rules, when they start deviating from their roles to something else degeneration occurs, and then they become extinct since they are not designed for their new roles.
You could instead properly redesign things to fit their new roles. It doesn't just happen randomly. There will always be intelligent/intentional interventions
Maybe things will be clearer if OP replies, otherwise I don't know what even is lower or higher state in this discussion. It's been days and I'm not sure if OP is still cooking something, considering he's still online recently.
The biggest question will always be how exactly will the new block plays out. What makes event recording different than making transaction on the network. If it's more or less the same thing why would people change things?