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If you want a more theoretical review of byzantine consensus protocols, you need to read through the gossip-based protocol literature, in particular byzantine b
by ccktlmazeltov 6y ago
If you want a more theoretical review of byzantine consensus protocols, you need to read through the gossip-based protocol literature, in particular byzantine broadcast protocols[1], where consensus is just one powerful primitive among others.
[1]: https://dcl.epfl.ch/site/_media/education/sdc_byzconsensus.pdf https://dcl.epfl.ch/site/_media/education/sdc_byzconsensus.p...
- josh2600 6y agoYeah the broadcast layer is the part where a lot of the byzantine protocols breakdown IMHO. Broadcast storms are very bad. There's also the whole problem of tombstone-ing a proposed block if it doesn't achieve consensus fast enough (which is basically impossible to do as a function of time so you end up doing it as a function of a monotonic counter which has other problems). Anyways, I love all the byzantine stuff but very little of it is actually practical or fast.
- ccktlmazeltov 6y agodepends on your usecases or what throughput you need in your system