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Theme from SBC

: asymmetric / subjective trust assumptions (not all nodes are equally trusted, not all nodes trust equally) + view based protocols (nodes interpret their view of the state locally, & eventually a view-merge determines canonical DAG, fork choice, etc.)

7:57 PM · Aug 31, 2022Twitter Web App

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Where can this be applied outside of consensus protocols? Cool mechanism... maybe on-chain games?

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Asymmetric Distributed Trust

Quorum systems are a key abstraction in distributed fault-tolerant computing for capturing trust assumptions. They can be found at the core of many algorithms for implementing reliable broadcasts,...

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