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		aleph_minus_one 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020) > Not quite. Distributed consensus had been solved in the 1980's theoretically and the 1990's practically, even in the presence of byzantine nodes. Could you give me some literature references on this topic, because I guess this is something new to me?

FabHK 5 months ago | [–]

I highly recommend Tim Roughgarden's lecture series Foundation's of Blockchain. It covers it all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNJGPI0fuFA&list=PLEGCF-WLh2...

aleph_minus_one 5 months ago | | [–]

Thank you.

ycombinatrix 5 months ago | [–]

Paxos Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)

aleph_minus_one 5 months ago | [–]

Thank you.

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