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Re:Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud by hdespiritu on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:23PM (#17094620)
There's decades of academic work in the form of "impossibility" results showing that handling byzantine fault tolerance in distributed consensus is alot more computationally expensive than omission/crash fault tolerance. The following (FLP impossibility result) being one of the most famous ones:

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm85.pdf

Re:Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud by neffy on Thursday May 17, 2018 @06:16PM (#17096547)
Yes, that's the root of the problem. A deceptively simple sounding result.