<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Not trying to make it seem magic. Just emphasizing that the approach is unique. </p></div></blockquote>There are many unique idea out there.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">> 1. The Byzantine Generals problem was never considered unsolvable. In fact, the very paper that introduced it also provided a solution.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">I guess I should have added more detail. </p><p dir="ltr" class="">All previous solutions required gatekeepers, because they all failed if the adversary could perform a Sybil attack (flood the network with nodes)....</p></blockquote>I'm not sure what problem you're describing, but it's not the Byzantine Generals problem.</div><div><div> -- Jerry</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>