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Just to answer the question in the HN title "Replace it with a provably correct distributed consensus algorithm like Paxos."
by discodave 9y ago
Just to answer the question in the HN title "Replace it with a provably correct distributed consensus algorithm like Paxos."
- lotsoflumens 9y agoI believe that HashGraph might be a better idea ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashgraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashgraph
- zeroxfe 9y agoPaxos requires trust between peers. The Blockchain is designed to tolerate byzantine failures. These are very different problem spaces. (/me worked on Paxos for about a decade.)