Egal Foundations

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View Professor Martin Kleppmann's foundational paper and presentation titled:

"Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant".

A vector clock is a data structure used for determining the partial ordering of events in a distributed system and detecting causality violations.

Traditional chain of blocks consensus methods have significant limitations. Causal consistency addresses many of 'blockchain's shortcomings. 

Mandatory reading.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

 Len was a true Cypherpunk— equal parts brilliant, irreverent, and idealistic. He devoted his life to defending personal freedoms through cryptography

Hal Finney was a famous software developer and early Bitcoin contributor. He received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto.