Quote from: jaekwon on May 27, 2014, 09:04:12 AM

Hi SlipperySlope,

You have two links of mine on the original post, but the first (Venetian Bankers Problem) is deprecated in favor of TenderMint.
Also, the TenderMint link is broken due to a trailing slash. The link should be: http://tendermint.com/docs/tendermint_v04.pdf

I removed the Venetian Bankers Problem link and fixed the TenderMint link. Thanks for pointing out my errors.

Its interesting that defenders of Bitcoin proof-of-work believe Satoshi's Bitcoin to be the solution to the Byzantine General's Problem, or more generally the only working solution to achieving concensus in a distributed system.

But the academic field of Byzantine Fault Tolerance does not mention bitcoin with the notable exception of Andrew Miller's paper whose only citation is from me. Even when granted that the bulk of such papers were issued before 2009, Satoshi did not reference any in his defining Bitcoin paper nor stimulate much discussion of BFT algorithms when posting to this forum.

Google Scholar search for Byzantine Fault Tolerance

-Stephen Reed