Algorand Consensus Protocol

Re:Algorand Consensus Protocol by einarvollset on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:09PM (#24815028)

Nice to see applied to a different domain, but this is a reasonably standard randomized Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocol, or? Nothing wrong with that of course, just curious why it was deemed newsworthy.

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Re:Algorand Consensus Protocol by AlexCoventry on Saturday October 17, 2020 @11:53PM (#24815416)

Which prior protocol does it seem most similar to, to you?

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Re:Algorand Consensus Protocol by brynb on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:13AM (#24815496)

Oh, hey there, Coventry :) I’d be curious to know the same, as well as to hear a comparison between Algorand and: 1) recent work on aBFT protocols, many of which don’t seem to require any kind of staking, and... 2) Chainlink’s off-chain aggregation protocol’s consensys mechanism

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