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Surprised the Bitcoin paper isn't on here.
by 65 2y ago
Surprised the Bitcoin paper isn't on here.
- sho_hn 2y agoIt doesn't really add anything to computer science, but then again the Sergey-Brin paper probably doesn't match that rigidity either.
- ggm 2y agoMerkles work probably more important. And progenitor papers on representation of branch streams implementing reversible editors
- mrkeen 2y agoI'm not so sure. In my (under-read) mental model, blockchain takes you from fail-stop fault-tolerance (a la Paxos) to Byzantine fault-tolerance, i.e. how do you compute in a massively distributed system when no node has any reason to trust any other node.
- udev4096 2y agoBTC is just combining all the past research into an application, which has it's own place but sadly not here. You might wanna read this [0] for all the past ideas that satoshi took [0] - https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559