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by ineedasername 3107 days ago
Nah, solutions to that class of problem have been around a while. BFT software for these type of faults are built into airplanes and other critical systems. Its use in blockchain is novel, and interesting, but not a brand new or first solution to obtainin Byzantine Agreement within a system or the associate algorithms involvedinvolved.
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BTC was the first sybil-resistant distributed consensus algorithm in history. Airplanes don't need to worry about sybil attacks.
Neither do most people. Thus, blockchain's limited utility over something like what CT does.