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dozzie on April 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides

This is very much not what distributed consensus is. You don't "work on the same hard math problem" and you don't get "a reward to encourage further problem solving". Consensus is agreeing on a value among (almost) all protocol participants, and "distributed consensus" is proper technical term, not a vague definition by hand waving like "object oriented programming". Read about Byzantine Generals problem first.

ilovecars2 on April 1, 2018 | [–]

Could one look at it more like viewstamped replication rather than traditional consensus?

kthejoker2 on April 3, 2018 [flagged] | [2 more]

Thanks for everything except the condescension!

dozzie on April 3, 2018 [flagged] | [–]

Dude, you come to a discussion without knowing the basic concepts. What exactly did you expect?

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