[josh2600]

Yeah the broadcast layer is the part where a lot of the byzantine protocols breakdown IMHO. Broadcast storms are very bad. There's also the whole problem of tombstone-ing a proposed block if it doesn't achieve consensus fast enough (which is basically impossible to do as a function of time so you end up doing it as a function of a monotonic counter which has other problems).

Anyways, I love all the byzantine stuff but very little of it is actually practical or fast.

[ccktlmazeltov]

depends on your usecases or what throughput you need in your system