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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by moxious on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:18PM (#15405612)
The Byzantine generals problem doesn't address malicious nodes, just failure prone ones. That's a pretty big difference
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Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain by dozzie on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:23PM (#15405641)
Well, Lamport didn't know that the generals are only allowed not to vote when he was writing the original paper. I read the original publication. Have you?
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