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Something that always bugged me with cardano's Ouroboros is the name. Ouroboros means eating (usually your own) tail, and the symbol that usually goes with it i
by geoah 7y ago
Something that always bugged me with cardano's Ouroboros is the name. Ouroboros means eating (usually your own) tail, and the symbol that usually goes with it is a snake/dragon as a loop/circle.
Blockchain is basically an ever expanding chain (or tree if you include the shorter branches that didn't make it) so I can't understand the relation to ouroboros loop/circle.
I assume they have a different reason for naming it that but didn't ever find it.
- exdsq 7y agoI understood it to be that Ouroboros went around the world? And Jormungandr is a type of Ouroboros (the Rust implementation of Ourorboros).
- despair3435 7y agoWe chose Ouroboros since there is a single type of network layer that can be repeated ad infinitum, similar to the dragon eating its own tail.