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> There is no way to know for sure that a Byzantine system is actually operating in a way that replicated copies of your data are actually safely written. Isn'
by latchkey 3y ago
> There is no way to know for sure that a Byzantine system is actually operating in a way that replicated copies of your data are actually safely written.
Isn't this how Bitcoin adds to the ledger though? Using a merkle tree and slowing things down significantly with those 6+ confirmations.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoTechnically Bitcoin can work without ever safely writing to disk. It's potentially all magical caches until the firmware decides to put bits to media.
- latchkey 3y agoThat's actually a really good point. It isn't dependent on the hardware, it depends on the math.