[Cryptography] What has Bitcoin achieved?

Bryan Bishop kanzure at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 13:53:50 EDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:10 PM, ianG <iang at iang.org> quoted:
> > Now let each notary include the outputs from the other notaries once
> > an hour. Now it requires every notary to defect for a defection to
> > succeed without being noticed.

That design looks like a response to something that is slightly
different from the original threat model that Bitcoin was proposing.
Although, I would be interested in hearing dissenting opinions on
whether or not the two threat models are comparable?

- Bryan
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