block chain
Trying to understand the ecosystem of “Proof of Luck” based distributed systems.
Use observable phenomenon to time things: - http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3693 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar#Precise_clocks
Use fancy algorithms: - http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/RR-6956.pdf - http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/12/23/paper-crdts-consistency-without-concurrency-control.html - http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mandic/dvv/papers/physica%20D.pdf