The Death of Bitcoin:http://tonyarcieri.com/the-death-of-bitcoin …
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@bascule@darkuncle Is that surprising? Your link points out that all distributed systems have that property.pic.twitter.com/KL60Qx5J7l
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@taoeffect that's saying that to tolerate faulty networks (or faulty clients), systems *must* be partition tolerant. Bitcoin isn't. -
@bascule Ah you're right, sorry I misread your tweet. -
@bascule Re-reading your tweet, I'm not sure what exactly Bitcoin sacrifices. If a fork occurs, the whole system doesn't break... -
@taoeffect it loses acknowledged writes. From a distributed systems perspective, that counts as broken -
@bascule Well, fine, but I think that applies to every other system you described? -
@taoeffect if it does, then there's something wrong with their correctness proofs -
@taoeffect which is entirely possible, and why they should write their proofs in something amenable to automated model checking (e.g. TLA+) - 3 more replies
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@bascule
for the everything2 link; haven't been there in yearsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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