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Not a consensus protocol researcher. It seems like blockchain brings a bunch of extra stuff, complexity and cost? Raft seems comparatively simple to me. What
by woooooo 3y ago
Not a consensus protocol researcher.
It seems like blockchain brings a bunch of extra stuff, complexity and cost? Raft seems comparatively simple to me.
What does blockchain bring that's easier to maintain and harder to fuck up than "elect a leader and replicate a log"?
- Vervious 3y agoA blockchain (without all the bells and whistles) is definitionally equivalent to a state-machine or log replication system (but handling byzantine faults). (Each log entry is just a block).