COIN: a distributed accounting system for peer to peer networks Fabio Varesano from Torino, Italy writes:
The main part of the project was the designing of an accounting protocol for a P2P network. I based my work on Pastry and David Hausheer's PeerMint.
The second part of the project was implementing the P2P accounting protocol. This has been done using FreePastry,
From #bitcoin-dev:
13:11 fax8 hi guys, I just discovered the bitcoin project.. some years ago I developed something pretty similar for my thesis.. details at
http://bit.ly/fyuTRr13:12 fax8 I'd like to know if you were aware of my work, and if you used something from that?
13:17 fax8 molecular: actually, there's was a lot of literature on decentralized accouting system even at that time
13:27 fax8 thank you, I'll surely get in touch with them. we do have a quite strong research group on p2p, may be cool to start collaborating..
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