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Given that nodes are trusted and communicate securely, why would a node be dishonest? (I'm thinking about this in a standard server setting: is your point that
by deathanatos 12y ago
Given that nodes are trusted and communicate securely, why would a node be dishonest? (I'm thinking about this in a standard server setting: is your point that you can't use it for distributed peer-to-peer stuff on random user machines?)
- the_schwarz 12y agoA "dishonest" node doesn't necessarily have to be explicitly malicious, it can be simply faulty.
- elbenshira 12y agoLots of research has gone into this, under the name Byzantine fault tolerance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
- kijin 12y agoFor one thing, you can't use it for cryptocurrency stuff.