๐ง a16z's 'First Principles': How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem
A new a16z crypto podcast traces how Bitcoin solved a decades-old distributed computing puzzle: getting independent machines to agree on shared state even when some participants are faulty or malicious.
โข Researchers Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham unpack Byzantine agreement and state machine replication โ the theory underlying every blockchain consensus mechanism.
โข The conversation traces the line from early proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, Tendermint, Casper, and modern DAG-based protocols.
Old CS theory, it turns out, still shapes today's fastest and most secure chains.
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๐ง a16z's 'First Principles': How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem
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