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You may be interested in another paper[1] by Sompolinsky and Zohar describing block-trees rather than block-chains as a better structural approach. 1: https://
by jasonzemos 9y ago
You may be interested in another paper[1] by Sompolinsky and Zohar describing block-trees rather than block-chains as a better structural approach.
1: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881.pdf
- matuszeg 9y agoThank you so much for this. I work in this field and have been telling my coworkers that a tree or graph would make more sense. This is what i needed. Thank you Do you know if anyone is working to implement something like this?
- f00_ 9y agohashgraph? https://hashgraph.com/ https://hashgraph.com/
- airstrike 9y agoPlease tell me this is how the internet will work in space.
- refset 9y agohttps://archain.org https://archain.org and their "Blockweave" construction sounds similar. Here is a recent talk from Code Mesh on what they're building: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YO3zyQvL3Yg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YO3zyQvL3Yg
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- DennisP 9y agoEthereum has something along these lines in production; it's how they get higher throughput and 15-second block times.
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- fjni 9y agoSpectre is super interesting, same author, they started https://www.daglabs.com https://www.daglabs.com to implement this https://medium.com/@avivzohar/the-spectre-protocol-7dbbebb707b5 https://medium.com/@avivzohar/the-spectre-protocol-7dbbebb70... https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1159.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1159.pdf
- api 9y agoWhat would trees give you for the usual ledger use case? Or would it be some other use?
- timow1337 9y agoThe paper just describes a new method for selecting the main chain. Bitcoin uses the longest chain (with the most work) whereas this paper wants to use the block that is the child of the heaviest sub tree. The ledger would still be a chain of blocks. For real tree like blockchains there are a few examples such as IOTA, raiblocks and byteball.
- koheripbal 9y agoEthereum actually uses a reduced version of this to accept portions of competing chains so as to be more efficient.