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Achieving consensus with 99% dishonest actors
- opwieurposiu 8y agoCongress has been doing this for 200+ years!
- dang 8y agoPlease don't do this here.
- wmf 8y agoThey've shifted the hard work to a separate system that isn't described in the article. I'll go ahead and predict that their "Mass" system is either proof of work or proof of stake.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoThat's a very strong claim, and I hope it is true (if there is anything I have learned from cryptography, it is that sometimes things that seem impossible are proven to be possible). But I would like to see a much more formal mathematical paper describing the proof, at least similar in detail and rigor as say the Algorand paper. This is such a short article, in plain english, that it's pretty hard to believe the claim of achieving consensus with 99% dishonest actors.. Edit: I just noticed that the final sentence does reference a white paper, which I will now read and comment upon after finishing.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoOK, I read the paper, I was hoping for a repeating sequence of Theorem, Proof Motivation/Explanation, repeat... English word salad motivating the strategy or approach, but proofs for each claim. Perhaps they have proofs, but they're not in the paper. Now it's just impact factor jello :( Moreover, it seemms that the initiator of a transaction chooses its own inspector, who then chooses the next. What prevents the united 99% conspiring malicious from selecting each other as inspectors, and underwriting each other?
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