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I'd have to read the paper, but I'm extremely skeptical as I've read most of Lamport's work and I don't recall a relevant solution. Also, Journalists: please s
by KirinDave 8y ago
I'd have to read the paper, but I'm extremely skeptical as I've read most of Lamport's work and I don't recall a relevant solution.
Also, Journalists: please stop repeating propaganda about a 51% attack, it's a <33% attack. Not all chains are created equal on this, but all chains can be attacked by a 33% dos attack.
- cam3ham 8y agolol... why don't you try reading the article?
- KirinDave 8y agoI did, it's for "investors" rather than developers. I'm reading Vitalik's blogpost now. I see what he's talking about now. I'm going to finish it and decide, but I see which part of Lamport's work he's referring to. A network using this technique needs a reasonable upper bound on network latency for validators (hard to get) and needs to keep the set of active nodes relatively small (which forever dooms a traditional mining pool to be somewhat concentrated). The former problem can be substantially improved by: 1) Using custom time hardware a la spanner. 2) Causing the network to halt entirely in unfavorable network conditions.