Demystifying Bitcoin

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Claims that the core double-payment problem is double-payment is asynchronous and does not require consensus, replaces proof-of-work leaders with a snapshot-based approach, and therefore avoids the huge mining cost (currently comparable to the energy use of a small industrial country). Demonstrates a permissioned deterministic design and a permissionless randomized variant, publishes code and three papers, wins a best-paper award, and reports prototypes that perform far fewer messages and near-zero energy compared with classic Bitcoin mining.

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" chapters (13)

1. 0:00Demystifying Bitcoin
2. 11:48Roadmap
3. 23:57Message Passing
4. 28:40Is payment an asynchronous problem?
5. 29:17Counter: Specification
6. 32:43Counter*: Specification
7. 33:34Counter: Algorithm
8. 42:51yment Object (PO): Specification
9. 45:14Snapshot: Specification
10. 47:48ssage Passing Shared Memory Modulo Samples
11. 48:47Payment System (AT2)
12. 51:39References
13. 54:03Journey to the center of distributed computing

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