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mleku · 1w
distributed consensus is a huge field. only since bitcoin did byzantine fault tolerant types get big. CRDTs have been used for a long time, skype was the biggest example. bittorrent with it's heteroge...
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I'm not really familiar with these, but are these consensus mechanisms actually designed to prevent cheating / deal with dishonest participants? And when you talk about "partition", do you mean that relays may split into two groups, one that shows the revocation and another that doesn't? In that case, it seems that "partition resistance" would be extremely important. That's precisely the problem, i.e. that an adversary may build a "partition" that withholds all-important information about a key revocation.
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mleku · 1w
byzantine fault tolerance is one of the ways you get a partition resistant system. bitcoin vs proof of stake systems is the bitcoin favors has stronger availability but weaker consistency (6 blocks probabalistic finality) the pBFT based proof of stake systems have weaker availability (stop failure) ...