Algorand - interesting?

[Southside]

ALGORAND
The Efficient Public Ledger

1607.01341.pdf

also Algorand, The Public Ledger - Silvio Micali - YouTube ← the really new stuff starts about 37mins in

This is very interesting, could something like this be a basis for alt-coins on SAFE?
It shares certain ant-like aspects with SAFE ie clients can adopt different roles as required.
I won’t claim to fully understand all^H^H^H much of the maths/cryptography in the paper I linked to but I bet there are those on this forum who would have no bother with it.

[19eddyjohn75]

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Prof. Silvio Micali: A New Scalable and Secure Approach to Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus (169)

[aenemic]

Data Chains is supposed to do something like this no?

[Southside]

thank you @19eddyjohn75

[Southside]

Datachains will allow us to do many many things - this could well be a candidate - or rather the basis for a candidate to sit on top of datachains.