Joey, thanks for your response
1) I am not affiliated with Swirlds. I actually run my own crypto fund. I just like their technology.
2) Gossip protocols have been around for a long time, but I said gossip about gossip. My understanding is that that is one of the key innovations.
3) If you build another protocol, thats cool. Good luck. Thats what I was suggesting.
4) Send me the link to "Scalable and leaderless Byzantine consensus in cloud computing environments. and Ill take a look
5) Im interested to see the innovation in your white paper when the revised, non Hashgraph, version comes out.