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Most distributed consensus algorithms, or distributed systems in general, are not resilient to nodes producing arbitrary wrong results. That's the realm of sys
by catern 5y ago
Most distributed consensus algorithms, or distributed systems in general, are not resilient to nodes producing arbitrary wrong results. That's the realm of systems like Bitcoin, which achieve such resilience by paying big performance costs.
So it shouldn't be surprising that computers have the same lack of resilience.
- anonymousDan 5y agoSorry what? That is exactly the purpose of Byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithms, which have been around for many years.
- catern 5y agoSure, that doesn't contradict what I said. They have been around for years, and they are very expensive and almost all systems do not use them.
- anonymousDan 5y agoThey are a lot more efficient than bitcoin. But agreed, not cheap.