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@andre actually, @alcinnz worked on an earlier version of the CRDT! Things have evolved since then, though.

The hard part, as he pointed out, is the ordering. Lamport timestamps work - they're logical clocks, where each edit happens one unit after the other, but the units have no real relationship to wall time.

The problem is: how do distributed nodes agree on what is "one unit" and "after?"

Lamport suggested that every node simply keeps its own timestamp, and every edit happens at plus one..