[Cryptography] new, more efficient consensus protocol

[Richard Outerbridge]

> On 2021-01-15 (15), at 01:02:33, jrzx via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:
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> Solving the problem of distributed consensus is hard.

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No kidding.

> The blockdag, done right, is equivalent the Practical Fault Tolerant Byzantine consensus, albeit the equivalence is far from obvious, and the blockdag is in ways simpler to understand.  Practical Fault Tolerant Byzantine consensus is arcane, but reveals a number of interesting mathematical facts about the nature of collective action.

Maybe.  Blockdag or Blackdog?
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