sunnya97

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by sunnya97 8y ago
The Cooper Union in NYC used to do something similar for over a century until they were forced to stop in 2014 due to a combination of many financial factors, including the financial crisis of 2008. You can read the entire story of it here:
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by sunnya97 8y ago
Check out this interview I did for the Epicenter Podcast with Enigma, a company building an MPC implementation, for a decent intro to what MPC is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAUByRZGWM
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by sunnya97 8y ago
I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching what I call “educational channels” on topics ranging from science to geopolitics to philosophy. Here's a list of a bunch of them. https://medium.com/sunnya97/educational-yo
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by sunnya97 9y ago
In PoW, you are trusting the miners.
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by sunnya97 9y ago
Some other random generation techniques include commit-reveal schemes, BLS Threshhold Relays, VRFs, Private Hashchains, etc.
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by sunnya97 9y ago
Also, two other comments regarding weak subjectivity: When you join the bitcoin blockchain, you need some trusted source to tell you the hash of the correct genesis block. Also, if you want to follow a shorter fork chain like Ethereum Class
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by sunnya97 9y ago
You would have to compromise the devices of validators who have atleast 2/3 of the voting power. In Bitcoin, just compromise the devices of mining pools that have atleast 50% of the hashing power, and reconstruct a chain that is longer
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by sunnya97 9y ago
What centralized authority? The keys in the genesis block aren't owned by a single actor, but by multiple. You can keep the validator set static all the time (use the ones from the genesis block), this might be useful for private chain
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by sunnya97 9y ago
It's not a single private key. There are a lot of validators, even in the genesis block, and we assume that at least 2/3 of these validators are honest.
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by sunnya97 9y ago
Unlike traditional BFT algorithms that have multiple validators with equal and static voting power, what Tendermint does is each validator has coins staked to them. These coins can be either the validator operator's own coins or coin
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by sunnya97 9y ago
Adding on to what coinculture said, the traditional BFT nature of Tendermint consensus gives it a lot of benefits over Nakamoto consensus such as 1-block finality and safety guarantees in asynchronous environments. Traditionally, these BFT
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Analysis of Tezos: The New Digital Commonwealth(medium.com)
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