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Re:Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017? by gnusouth on Saturday December 30, 2017 @05:42PM (#16038137)
I really liked Vlad Zamfir's papers on "correct-by-construction" consensus protocols. What I love about this work is that it unifies traditional BFT consensus with blockchain consensus to make something better than both! Really exciting!

Abstract CBC: https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/cbc-...

Casper the friendly GHOST: https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/Casp...

I found the Abstract CBC paper a little easier to understand, as it goes into more detail about the correct-by-construction process.

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