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Solana· 2026-02-12 05:56
RT Soubhik Deb (@soubhik_deb)Solana’s consensus is getting surgery, not a patch.With Alpenglow, they are ripping out core assumptions and pushing finality toward hundreds of milliseconds.Alpenglow will be one of the most ambitious protocol upgrades for @solana and for crypto overall.I had an wonderful conversation with @TheWattenhofer, @DiscoKobi and @qkniep from @anza_xyz on what is Alpenglow and how does it impact Solana ecosystem.Stay tuned for the full episode of TheCoordinate podcast! ...
X @Wu Blockchain
Wu Blockchain· 2026-02-09 04:57
Vitalik: The Blockchain Trilemma Is Being SolvedOn January 27, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated at the ETH ChiangMai togETHer Tuesday event that the long-held "blockchain trilemma" of scalability, consensus, and decentralization is not a mathematical theorem, but rather an engineering, stage-dependent challenge. With the advancement of technologies such as zk-SNARKs and PeerDAS at both the computation and data layers, Ethereum is attempting to achieve higher system capacity while maintaining strong c ...
Bitcoin: The Mycelium of Money? 🍄💰
Bitcoin Bram· 2026-02-02 11:01
Both Bitcoin and psychedelics are self-organizing systems that emerge from some [music] form of chaos. Bitcoin is the mcelium of money. It's distributed, resilient, antifragile, and it has no central spores.It's just [music] the consensus propagating through the digital soil. And it replaces central banks, which is a top- down order, with peer-to-peer consensus, which is a bottom up selforganization. ...
Christine Lagarde on Why Consensus Isn’t Always the Right Approach
Bloomberg Originals· 2026-01-14 18:34
How do you find consensus at the governing council level. I mean, is it right actually to always try and find consensus in in terms of just mechanics. >> You know, not not always.There there are times and there are, I'm sure, circumstances or sectors where you have to just drive through and and be this authoritative uh leader who is going to carry the day and ignore completely what the views of others are. It's just not my style. And so far, it has it has served me reasonably well.Even in times of crisis, w ...
X @Cointelegraph
Cointelegraph· 2025-12-04 01:00
Technology & Innovation - Vitalik Buterin describes PeerDAS in Fusaka upgrade as "literally sharding," enabling consensus without requiring any single node to view more than a small portion of the data [1]
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-16 00:28
Protocol Violation - Version 30 (v30) was implemented despite failing to achieve consensus, violating the Bitcoin protocol [1] - Supporters of v30 cannot criticize other consensus violations [1] - Core no longer has a vote on consensus due to prior contract violation [1]
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-05 17:08
RT Totally Depraved Boomer (@UglyOldGoat1)The Core/Knots debate is only the opening act. It’s not about code — it’s about control of settlement. If custodians freeze, miners hesitate, and users can’t redeem, consensus doesn’t matter. A fork where half the supply can’t move is not a fork. It’s a rerun on rails.@NickSzabo4 @GrassFedBitcoin @Excellion @LukeDashjr @Rob1Ham @giacomozucco @ToneVays @jimmysong ...