You'd then get these diabolical white papers that go on for pages, filled with formulas no less, to prove the robustness of these protocols. All starting off of a circular reasoning fallacy. But math, right? 
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It's surely intimidating if you're new to crypto. All these smart-sounding people writing all these smart-sounding words. Their papers so thick, their formulas so fancy. They can't be all wrong, right? Some of this is due to pure incompetence, but some are outright scammy.
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The crypto scene of today must have been very similar to the early days of science, when people still believed in Perpetual Motion and the idea of getting something out of nothing. One day we will look back and laugh at all this insanity.
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Distributed consensus went unsolved for like 30+ years now everyone has their own solution

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Right? lol.
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What I find odd is that so many reasonably smart people are misled.
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I’ve used the analogy of thermodynamics and ”perpetum mobile” myself but in the context of ”blockchain not
#bitcoin.”
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Some practical examples on what these assumptions are for some actual projects would be a nice addition that'd help get a handle on what you're talking about.
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most PoS protocols :-) you only have to look up how they address randomness / claim to be able to generate randomness by consensus.
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How does Bitcoin solve the problem of establishing a genesis block and protocol rules? Isn't it a consensus problem? To avoid the "turtles all way down" problem, ANY system needs to be rooted in human consensus. It's just that with Bitcoin you consider this setup a common
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knowledge, but for a new protocol you're going to complain about a lack of technical solution to the consensus about initial parameters. The solution to consensus bootstrapping problem can be understood as a Schelling point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory) … , kinda fascinated concept on
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its own. Obviously, when Bitcoin was announced, people DID NOT have to use the genesis block generated by Satoshi, that DID NOT have to download binaries & code from http://bitcoin.org and run it, they DID NOT have to use SHA256^2 for mining. But it was obvious to everyone,
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and that's what they did. It works same way with PoS or any other consensus systems: initial steps are obvious. The goal of the protocol is to maintain the consensus once its already going.
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