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March 20, 2014, 10:49:40 PM
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Hi every one!

This is what I did this week: the MinCen Protocol. The idea is design a cryptocurrency that behaves like a centralized one, but can disperse into fully distributed one if something goes wrong. Nature has many examples of colonies that have a queen, but if the queen dies somehow manage to re-elect a new queen that all obey. This is what the MinCen protocol tries to do: it chooses a master node that decides which is the next block when there are competing chains. Everyone then follows this decision. But if the master node tries to cheat then every miner starts looking for another master node, in such a way that individual decisions converge to a new global selection. Are you designing a new cryptocoin? give a try to the MinCen protocol

The paper and some additional comments are available in my blog here:

http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/mincen-a-new-protocol-to-achieve-instant-payments/


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March 21, 2014, 08:57:50 PM
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This is a powerful concept. I hope to see it in action in the future Smiley
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March 21, 2014, 09:05:36 PM
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This is similar to the concept of federated servers in Open-Transactions, right? It also bears some resemblance to the private accounting servers Jorge Timon and myself are working on within Freimarkets.

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March 21, 2014, 10:02:17 PM
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Hi every one!

This is what I did this week: the MinCen Protocol. The idea is design a cryptocurrency that behaves like a centralized one, but can disperse into fully distributed one if something goes wrong. Nature has many examples of colonies that have a queen, but if the queen dies somehow manage to re-elect a new queen that all obey. This is what the MinCen protocol tries to do: it chooses a master node that decides which is the next block when there are competing chains. Everyone then follows this decision. But if the master node tries to cheat then every miner starts looking for another master node, in such a way that individual decisions converge to a new global selection. Are you designing a new cryptocoin? give a try to the MinCen protocol

The paper and some additional comments are available in my blog here:

http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/mincen-a-new-protocol-to-achieve-instant-payments/


Best regards,
 Sergio.

Cool! I like the analogy a lot.
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