Solana Consensus Protocol - What's the Secret Sauce?

Solana has this design where they're collecting signatures. Every single validator is trying to collect signatures from every other validator. And those nodes have to each be very, very fast and very beefy for that system to work well in perpetuity. If a Solana node was slow, then all of the transactions that got sent to him for creating the next block would have to then be sent to the next node. So there are a couple of things that are going on here. First of all, do not build systems with bad feedback loops. Second, make sure that the algorithms that you use underneath the covers are fast.

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