If anyone asks you: how can I scale my State Machine Replication (Blockchain) system? You should answer back with a question: what is your bottleneck? Is it Data, Consensus or Execution? Data: Shipping the commands to all the replicas. For example, if a block contains 1MB of commands, then you...| decentralizedthoughts.github.io
Verifiable Information Dispersal (or VID) has its roots in the work of Michael Rabin, 1989 which introduced the notion of Information Dispersal (ID). Adding verifiability (referred to as binding in this post) to obtain VIDs was done by Garay, Gennaro, Jutla, and Rabin, 1998 (called SSRI). Cachin and Tessaro, 2004...| decentralizedthoughts.github.io