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Can you point me to some of the consensus protocol work? That's always seemed to be the more interesting aspect of BTC to me, but the other requirements of the
by egd 11y ago
Can you point me to some of the consensus protocol work? That's always seemed to be the more interesting aspect of BTC to me, but the other requirements of the currency have made that harder than just the smart contracts alone.
- adrianmacneil 11y agohttps://www.ethereum.org/ https://www.ethereum.org/ and https://www.stellar.org/ https://www.stellar.org/ are two interesting ones to check out.
- egd 11y agoThought ethereum was basically the BTC protocol under the hood?
- Adlai 11y agoStellar has a consensus protocol? Last I checked, there's a single blessed node dishing out verifiable data. It's nicer than having a remote API that just hands you a trusted number, but it's a far cry from Nakamoto Consensus.
- woah 11y agoYes, so the one I am most familiar with is Tendermint (disclaimer, I'm friends with some of the people involved). This is a genuinely novel consensus protocol that is inspired by DLS and PBFT (classic Byzantine consensus stuff), and also runs smart contracts using the same languages as Ethereum. Ethereum themselves are trying to do something similar (Casper), but to the best of my knowledge it is not ready yet.
- egd 11y agoGreat, thanks for the info - I'll check into those.