Anyone who has had to explain how Bitcoin works to non-techie people will agree that this seemingly straightforward distributed system is actually quite complex and nuanced. Here's the best description we've seen so far. And if you think the parody is ridiculous, then check out the non-parody below it.
A post-doc in the Systems and Networking Group in the Department of Computer Science in Cornell. My Research Interests are distributed systems and algorithms, specifically distributed storage algorithms, the distributed aspects of Bitcoin, and reliable aggregation in distributed sensor networks. more...
Hacker and professor at Cornell, with interests that span distributed systems, OSes and networking. Current projects include HyperDex, OpenReplica and the Nexus OS. more...
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