consensus

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Gifford's 1979 weighted-voting scheme keeps replicated files consistent by requiring read and write quorums whose votes sum to more than the total

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · distributed-systems, consensus, quorum, replication, history-of-computing
Distributed-consensus folklore has its own priority-and-myth pattern: Lamport's rejected Paxos allegory and Nakamoto's under-credited precursors

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, distributed-systems, consensus, priority-myth, cryptocurrency
Lamport wrote Paxos as a Greek-parliament allegory, and reviewers read it as a joke — delaying the algorithm's publication from 1990 to 1998

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · distributed-systems, consensus, paxos, lamport, priority-myth
Nakamoto's Bitcoin design drew directly on Wei Dai's b-money, and Nakamoto was initially unaware of Nick Szabo's earlier 'bit gold' until Dai pointed it out

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · distributed-systems, consensus, cryptocurrency, bitcoin, nakamoto