So it seems to me that all I need to do is figure out who the current leader is, and DDoS him off the network to shut Bitcoin-NG down.
This is a significant advantage to bitcoin's ex-post-facto blocks: no one knows where the next one will come from. The only way to shut the network down is to shut all nodes down. Emin Gün Sirer via bitcoin-dev [bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We just released the whitepaper describing Bitcoin-NG, a new technique for > addressing some of the scalability challenges faced by Bitcoin. Surprisingly, > Bitcoin-NG can simultaneously increase throughput while reducing latency, and > do so without impacting Bitcoin's open architecture or changing its trust > model. This post illustrates the core technique: > http://hackingdistributed.com/2015/10/14/bitcoin-ng/ > while the whitepaper has all the nitty gritty details: > http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02037 > > Fitting NG on top of the current Bitcoin blockchain is future work that we > think is quite possible. NG is compatible with both Bitcoin as is, as well as > Blockstream-like sidechains, and we currently are not planning to compete > commercially with either technology -- we see NG as being complementary to > both > efforts. This is pure science, published and shared with the community to > advance the state of blockchains and to help them reach throughputs and > latencies required of cutting edge fintech applications. Perhaps it can be > adopted, or perhaps it can provide the spark of inspiration for someone else > to > come up with even better solutions. > > We would be delighted to hear your feedback. > - Ittay Eyal and E. Gün Sirer. > > !DSPAM:561e98cd301391127216946! > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > > > !DSPAM:561e98cd301391127216946! -- Cheers, Bob McElrath "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev