@bascule @Hyperledger Wrong focus. If something works, the creators academic past is irrelevant. Eg, what's Satoshi's?
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@phantzen@Hyperledger@mongoosenewyork Satoshi built a prototype, not a finished solution -
@bascule@Hyperledger@mongoosenewyork Satoshi created something that fundamentally works, and nobody can even confirm he is not a dog. -
@phantzen@Hyperledger@mongoosenewyork 10 minute transaction times… “it works”! - End of conversation
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@bascule good thing no one told Lamport that! -
@nikitab I apologize if my "etc" wasn't inclusive enough, mainly wanted to make the point that it's pretty much a PhD-level problem -
@bascule very true. Anyway, Lamport certainly could be a professor at Stanford etc if he wanted to -
@nikitab yeah I would consider a TLA+ proof (or equivalent) a sort of minimum barrier to entry for a new distributed consensus algorithm
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@bascule ...unless you want to become a PhD. Then you might have to get your hands dirty and write to learn why these systems fail and how. -
@jeffcliff1 I definitely agree people who want to design consensus algorithms should get their hands dirty... writing TLA+
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@bascule does (certificate) transparency gossiping count as a distributed consensus algorithm? -
@ln4711 I have seen nothing but handwaving about what CT gossip actually is - 1 more reply
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@bascule dude cmon I've been hacking on ruby for like 3 weeks and I've totally got this.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bascule so, "don't roll your own crypto" should catch on for distributed computing as well (probably also mechanism design too)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bascule elitism! It's not like theirs are perfect either :) -
@mik235@bascule everything can be improved. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ms705/pub/papers/2015-osr-raft.pdf …
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@bascule@socrates1024 i met tony for the second time at party recently and he knew about your verified merkle trees :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@bascule *unless you want toThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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