Re:Proof of work is temporarily illegal in New York
by tommiegannert on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:33PM
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> all Proof of Work does [---] similar to a lottery
It's a probabilistic distributed rate limiter to speed up information convergence in a gossip system. I agree it's a wasteful way of deciding what your VCS' HEAD is.
It's a probabilistic distributed rate limiter to speed up information convergence in a gossip system. I agree it's a wasteful way of deciding what your VCS' HEAD is.