An Overview of #hashgraph
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An Overview Of HashgraphSimple Overview of the Hashgraph ProtocolA distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a system where we share information and we don’t trust each other individually, but we trust the group as a whole. DLTs allow us to come up with a consensus on the order of transactions and timestamps.Introducing HashgraphHashgraph was developed by Swirlds. The cofounder and CTO of Swirlds is Leemon Baird, who obtained his bachelor’s degree at the U.S. Air Force Academy and obtained a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.Hashgraph is a DLT. However, hashgraph is not a #blockchain in the sense that it’s not built on a chain of blocks. Hashgraph would be best characterized as a DAG — Directed Acyclic Graph.Other DLT solutions might be secure, but they’re not particularly (...)