Consensus Compare: #casper vs. #tendermint
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This technical deep dive was originally published on the Cosmos Blog. Enjoy.The Long Road to Proof-of-StakeFor definitions, see (Primer).The Byzantine General’s Problem was first proposed by SIFT in the 1970s to tolerate real-time faults in commercial aircraft and then given the name by Lamport, Shostak, and Pease in 1982. It described the problem of achieving distributed agreement over a compromised communications network — of making “a reliable system from unreliable parts”, as Ethan Buchman of Cosmos puts it. From 1982 to 1999, no one had invented a system that solved the Byzantine General’s Problem. It was irrelevant to computing for a long time because, at the time, the internet had evolved out of cloud-based central computing; all that was needed was fault-tolerance.So, crash-fault (...)