Showing posts with label consensus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consensus. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Tangles, DAGs, and IOTA

https://youtu.be/I_jNH9BlEEo

In IOTA every user is a 'miner' and it's not really a blockchain, but Tangles , DAGs and graph theory in a sense.   Good video.

Monday, March 27, 2017

Scaling Blockchain by thinking like a biologist


Great line about scaling blockchain. I agree.  So maybe we should start working with biologists and chemists and strategize a way to design and scale blockchain in terms of independent distributed biological nodes.

"Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents. For example, I should not have to know where every dollar in the economy is when I want to buy something from you"

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/arthur-brock-blockchains-major-design-flaw/2016/03/15?utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign

The Infrastructure Disappears. The Relationship Remains.

My kids play video games.  Sometimes too much. It used to be Roblox and Minecraft and then Fortnite and who knows what else as they gravitat...