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He said "real problem" so..yeah
by wittyusername 5y ago
He said "real problem" so..yeah
- arberx 5y agoByzantine fault tolerance is definitely a real problem.
- vkou 5y agoFor whom? Folks at Google, Facebook, and Amazon that are building distributed databases aren't re-writing their backends to use blockchains, for obvious reasons. As for people who aren't building general-purpose distributed databases, a solution to the Byzantine generals problem is more of a solution to a problem that they don't have - as other posts in this thread demonstrate.
- noofen 5y agoBoth can be true: 1) The original BTC paper was a huge breakthrough in decentralized systems. 2) Most "blockchain" projects today are merely elaborate Ponzis.