Interesting idea to have a completely p2p game! What cross-user interaction do you have in your game?

Thanks:)

Basically users can interact by playing basketball games against each other or by trading players. This sort of interactions are handled with something similar to a TCP handshake, since we must ensure that we end up with a consistent state at the end (e.g. players are traded consistently).

Because of this, it is not easy to have 'real-time' interactions: for example, when challenging each other, players only agree on the initial conditions of the game, which then is simulated independently (and deterministically) on both clients.

blockchain is too slow and completely inappropriate.

this thread makes me want to build a platform

I tend to lean toward the raft protocol vs blockchain due to storage

raft is too non-deterministic. Something like paxos is probably more appropriate; the write-once property is exactly what you want here, and it is deterministic.

in case nobody told you, you’re not allowed to say blockchain on HN

Talking about blockchains is fine, pretending they are somewhat apt at solving a problem that isn't money laundering is what will get you frowned upon.