Tag: PoA
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Internet Level Consensus & Decentralised Data Sovereignty
This type of consensus that the internet relies on and that is at the heart of the Stellar Consensus Protocol is purely relational in the sense that it is based on the transitive convergence of relationships throughout the network. This allows for reputation within the community to be the main influencing factor on consensus. This…
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Who is Sybil?
& Why did Byzantine generals have a problem? Believe it or not these 2 questions define the 2 fundamental security vulnerabilities of human networks. Human networks today are mostly based on the underlying global internet network. If James Lovelock’s thesis of the “Novacene” is correct and we are already cyborgs. Then doesn’t that mean that…
