this is the latest work from a french distributed systems programmer with the handle lesterpig

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.03291.pdf

it is a distributed database byzantine fault tolerant, eventual consistency model, and it's something that i've been interested in getting into more since 2018 when i first learned about it

calvin looks cool and i'm gonna research both...

the purpose of this is to find a way to make byzantine fault tolerant database replication federations for nostr data storage backends, that don't use shitcoin pBFT derivative trash that is outdated and crappy

i'm building such an interface now on a grant given by such a project but my bigger picture is to figure out how to solve the consensus problem for *at least* federations of nostr relay operators, preferably one that requires minimal manual interaction from the operators as a collective, and minimises politics and other kinds of human byzantine faults in the equation