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Re:The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin ... by ineedasername on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:14AM (#15985610)
Nah, solutions to that class of problem have been around a while. BFT software for these type of faults are built into airplanes and other critical systems. Its use in blockchain is novel, and interesting, but not a brand new or first solution to obtainin Byzantine Agreement within a system or the associate algorithms involvedinvolved.
Re:The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin ... by sillysaurus3 on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:51AM (#15985713)
BTC was the first sybil-resistant distributed consensus algorithm in history. Airplanes don't need to worry about sybil attacks.
Re:The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin ... by UncleMeat on Friday December 22, 2017 @09:43AM (#15987733)
Neither do most people. Thus, blockchain's limited utility over something like what CT does.