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alpha0  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Julian Assange: Bitcoin and the control of history

Github personnel can truncate records (as in remove certain commits past time t. They can not go and cherry pick a prior commit's content.). Having mirrors that periodically pull from Github would address that trivially.

The consensus bit goes back to my earlier comment re Vector Clocks and the CAP matter posted today. Perfect consensus in the material world is impossible.





mk  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Perfect consensus in the material world is impossible.

Well, it better be pretty darn close if we are to build an economy on top of it. :) That seems to be the plan, anyway.

alpha0  ·  3706 days ago  ·  link  ·  

| That seems to be the plan, anyway.

Yes, I've noted that BC is being pushed heavily by 'interesting' characters.