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This is a classic paper from 1982, which contributed in setting Leslie Lamport as a top distributed computing researcher. What did the poster want to indicate?
by AceJohnny2 12y ago
This is a classic paper from 1982, which contributed in setting Leslie Lamport as a top distributed computing researcher.
What did the poster want to indicate?
- jnks 12y agoPerhaps because there's a lot of breathless press [1] about Bitcoin solving this "impossible" problem that was in actually solved decades ago? [1] http://nonchalantrepreneur.com/post/70130104170/bitcoin-and-the-byzantine-generals-problem http://nonchalantrepreneur.com/post/70130104170/bitcoin-and-...
- typedweb 12y agoCorrect.
- zik 12y agoIt's simplistic to say that the problem was "solved decades ago". Every existing attempt at Byzantine fault tolerance is limited in one way or another - if you're looking for a solution it's really a matter of choosing a solution based on which set of painful limitations you want to live with. Bitcoin's solution is a pretty good one for its use case. Most other solutions would have trouble scaling like the blockchain can, but in many applications its very long consensus lead time would be unacceptable.
- typedweb 12y agoSometimes I just use HN as a bookmarker for interesting things. I didn't expect it to make it to the front page :)