Re: Blockchain vs DAG (Byteball's concencus algorithm).
We shouldn't confuse countermeasures against an attacker and achievement of consensus. These are different things.
This is worth to be added into my collection of your fuckups.
PS: If anyone thinks that those are NOT different things then read http://work.tinou.com/2009/05/faulttolerant-distributed-systems-made-simple.html (you can jump straight to these words:
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The Paxos algorithms can help us. The specific Paxos algorithm discussed below is the "basic" one (there's a bunch of Paxos algorithms). The model is asynchronous and non-Byzantine. This means that a process may crash and recover, but doesn't do anything weird like sending random, deceitful messages to other processes.
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