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False. Algorand has safety, unless you get confirmation from 2/3 of the "money", you don't go forward. The best you can get here is a denial of service.
by throwaway415415 8y ago
False. Algorand has safety, unless you get confirmation from 2/3 of the "money", you don't go forward. The best you can get here is a denial of service.
- EthanHeilman 8y agoThe CAP theorem [0] states that during a network partition a consensus system must either lose availability or consistency. * Bitcoin loses consistency * Algorand loses availability I'm glad Algorand exists so that systems which value consistency over availability can be built. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
- throwaway415415 8y agoUsually, for distributed systems in adversarial settings we talk about safety and liveness. Bitcoin doesn't have safety, and both bitcoin and algorand seems to fail the liveness test as well. In your terms, both bitcoin and algorand have weak availability.