News about Consensus

by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago

Consensus in Decentralized Systems 101

TLDR: This post aims to give you a high-level understanding the problems a consensus system solves and why its required. I think understanding this will act as a foundation for future learning Time (chronological order of events) is subjective in sof...

by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago

Summary of Ethereum's new consensus protocol: Gasper

This whole post is the summary/TL;DR of Ethereum's new consensus mechanism, Gasper. If you're not "innit for the tech", the Intro section provides an even shorter summary. I originally posted this a week ago on the CryptoCurre...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago

PoW Consensus Change To Combat Attack

G'day Bitcoiners. My question is about a 51% attack. I understand the disincentives when it comes to bad actors looking to make a profit, this is convincing to me that it makes no sense and would be ridiculously financially damaging to any entity...