Happy to announce that our paper "Lay Down the Common Metrics: Evaluating Proof-of-Work Consensus Protocols' Security" is accepted at @IEEESSP (Oakland)! Thx @hashdag @socrates1024 @pwuille @adam3us for the discussion! Paper: https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-3005.pdf … talk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiIQcdnKZBQ&feature=youtu.be …
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And indeed I did. Here's
@NickSzabo4 referring to it in a Dec 2014 post: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-dawn-of-trustworthy-computing.html … And I'm sussing our some possible 2012-2013 references.
I'm not part of the /r/btc/BU crowd either. I use it to refer to anonymous, probabilistic, and Sybil-resistant consensus, which first appeared in Bitcoin and is a fundamental computer science breakthrough vs. traditional identity-assuming & Sybil-vulnerable Byzantine consensus.
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Traditional Byzantine consensus assumes that nodes are uniquely identifiable & thus countable. This is fine if the goal is reliability, not security & nodes are part of a fixed architecture, as with chips on an airplane.
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The unique-and-countable node assumption seriously breaks when the goal is security among nodes on a public network, which is why Nakamoto consensus was such a huge advance in computer science.
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Ah, my apologies. I'm trying to find the origin of the term, not impugn your reputation by lumping you in with the crazy people. :-) So far it appears you are the earliest origin of it I can find in e.g. September 2014 tweets:https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/statuses/510207346807959552 …
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And here's one from 2014/07/23: https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/492046975093592064 … I'm always happy to be corrected.
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Earliest references I found so far: 2014/04/18: Private comment I made to gmax. (sigh) 2013/12/01: gmax stating it in
#bitcoin on Freenode 2013/08/24: earliest public mention I found of the below URL 2010/2011: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/decentralized-time.txt … "Nakamoto chain consensus" -
Even earlier public reference: 2012/02/01: gmax linking to decentralized-time.txt in bitcoin-dev on Freenode 2011/10/30: gmax in
#bitcoin: "hm. someone needs to create a nakamoto chain consensus distributed forum." All roads lead to gmax. :-P Alright, I'm done searching. \o
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