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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Transparent mining 2, or What part of Legacy should be left behind
by
CIYAM
on 11/02/2014, 12:52:22 UTC
During the time between blocks, each node builds up their own picture of what the whole network will look like. Different nodes will have slightly different pictures due to different connections and connectivity (assume the overall network condition isn't so bad as to have radically different pictures). But even with slight differences, the die rolls are still likely to land in the same accounts in 4). (picture a [0,1) line segment broken up into many separate account stakes. Assume no super-big stakes. If you remove some of them and insert some others, while maintaining stake ratios, the picture doesn't change by much (math can provide bounds)). So all nodes can achieve consensus.

I don't think that consensus can actually be reached without the equation being completely deterministic (so IMO using "known online nodes" just can't work).

I would think that the algo would simply determine the best choice regardless of whether they are online or not - and each client would determine which "online" node that they can see is closest to the best choice and "hope" that the "real choice" was not actually online.