How does Kaspa's K-parameter accommodate geographic delays between miners?

Kaspa's GHOSTDAG protocol uses a setting called the K-parameter to widen how many parallel blocks the network will accept at once, allowing miners who are geographically far apart to participate without being penalized for latency. In a traditional blockchain, when two miners produce blocks at nearly the same time, one is discarded — and miners who are physically distant from each other experience more of these costly ties. GHOSTDAG reframes geographic delay not as a problem to eliminate but as a built-in reality of any global network. The K-parameter controls how large the "anticone" — the set of blocks produced in parallel — can grow before the protocol stops tolerating it, and setting it generously means more latency is absorbed without wasted work. This matters for beginners because it means Kaspa's design does not silently reward miners who happen to live next to each other or share the same data center.