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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by anonymousDan on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:47PM (#30861795)
Sorry what? That is exactly the purpose of Byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithms, which have been around for many years.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by catern on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:13AM (#30866299)
Sure, that doesn't contradict what I said. They have been around for years, and they are very expensive and almost all systems do not use them.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by anonymousDan on Thursday March 31, 2022 @06:09PM (#30872765)
They are a lot more efficient than bitcoin. But agreed, not cheap.
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