I agree completely! I always joke that the block and chain part of "blockchain" are boring: that's basically git! The cool part is byzantine consensus! But lik

I agree completely! I always joke that the block and chain part of "blockchain" are boring: that's basically git! The cool part is byzantine consensus! But like I said, I also think that as a class of problems — byzantine consensus is just super different from the normal consensus problems paxos and raft are addressing. Way more than they might seem at first. Enough to be an off-topic to the point of just being naive or misleading.