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That entire paper is about PoS and dynamic membership systems where the participants aren't known. Relevance to the current discussion? Zero. All those attac
by sanswork 11y ago
That entire paper is about PoS and dynamic membership systems where the participants aren't known. Relevance to the current discussion? Zero.
All those attacks are based on unknown dynamic participants which isn't an issue. So ya argue against a system they aren't trying to implement.
- brighton36 11y agoSo if the trust each other - passing messages in the style of SMTP (or soap) is drastically better than a hokey round robin "blockchain emulation" architecture. At least you understand now that immutability requires energy...
- pyre 11y agoThis discussion might be a little above my pay-grade, but you're seeming to conflate "unknown participants" with "untrusted participants" from this response. It's possible to know someone without trusting them. I think that it's pretty apparent that there is a difference between an unknown anonymous actor, and an actor that you know, but just can't 100% trust.