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by api 3057 days ago
"Swarm Intelligence" - Okay, I stopped there. Can't throw something like that out without a link or commentary.

Getting a decentralized swarm to implement transaction processing is highly non-trivial, especially when (as the OP highlights) incentives are delicate and the entire system must be extremely secure.
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drcode 3056 days ago
Especially true since parallelizing the processing of transactions is orders of magnitude easier than parallelizing STORAGE of transactions in decentralized systems- he's deflecting the criticism towards an easier problem.
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api 3056 days ago
... which is the opposite of what a good engineer does. A good engineer focuses first on the hardest aspects of the problem, and tends to guide discussion there.
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kruhft 3056 days ago
They perform 'tip selection' using a random walk. Given the nature of the Tangle Tips as a nebulous cloud, could there be any better way?

And you can't enforce tip selection.

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