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#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
Lex Fridman Podcast
Blockchain and Byzantine Generals Problem
The Byzantine generals problem, it's this paper that Leslie Lamport published in 1982 where he has a stock experiment. It turns out that there's kind of no solution in a finite number of rounds that guarantees that they will be able to coordinate on the same answer. The thing that was unsolved though is that all of these solutions assume that you've already agreed on and I'm a fixed list of who the generals are. And so we have a good reason to believe that at least 11 of them would be fine.
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