CryptoQuikRead_110 - Adversaries, Distributed Ledgers, and Decentralization [Sarah Jamie Lewis]

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Jul 12 2018 | 00:25:23

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“Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain secure decentralized consensus AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of nodes/transactions." - @SarahJamieLewis

Check out her article and other work at:
https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/dags-and-decentralization/

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