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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Is a more efficient coin possible (Ben Laurie)?
by
cunicula
on 20/12/2011, 22:48:21 UTC
Hi, I've just read these papers by Ben Laurie and I'm really curious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Laurie

http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf

http://www.links.org/files/distributed-currency.pdf

Could this work?
Can a "Byzantine-fault-tolerant agreement" protocol be used to identify participants while maintaining them unique (so people don't cheat to get more random coins) or you need an "efficient unbounded agreement" protocol for that one?


Sigh. Nothing about incentives for accurate reporting in any of this discussion.