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The BFT lens: HotStuff and Casper

Today I am going to overview a new algorithmic foundation called ‘HotStuff the Linear, Optimal-Resilience, One-Message BFT Devil’ (in short, HotStuff), devel...

Blockchain in the Lens of BFT

In the early 2000’s, a group of activists advocating the wide-spread use of cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies were engaging over the `cypherpun...

Flexible Paxos

Summer was buzzing with intern activity at the VMware Research Group (VRG), working with all the research team and with David Tennenhouse, Chief Research Of...