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> Blockchain seems like a brilliant solution when multiple anonymous untrustworthy parties need to get together and agree. No. What you described is the proble
by dozzie 9y ago
> Blockchain seems like a brilliant solution when multiple anonymous untrustworthy parties need to get together and agree.
No. What you described is the problem of Byzantine generals, for which
efficient solutions are known since '80s. Think again what blockchain is,
because it's not agreement protocol.
- moxious 9y agoThe Byzantine generals problem doesn't address malicious nodes, just failure prone ones. That's a pretty big difference
- dozzie 9y agoWell, Lamport didn't know that the generals are only allowed not to vote when he was writing the original paper. I read the original publication. Have you?