LOCK CHAIN

Timeline

1999. Szabo designs mechanism for decentralized digital currency called "Bit Gold".

DOMAIN

Chain (of events)

Link (to an event)

Lock

An automaton nLock time https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/NLockTime

DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph

Links

• https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_cross-chain_trading
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance#Byzantine_Generals.27_Problem
• "The Byzantine Generals Problem" 1982 Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease