On the absence of pulses from pulsars — mentioned by barbegal

Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:50:51 GMT

Proof of stake doesn't work in practice unless we can find a source of randomness that is globally available, non-influencable and everyone can agree on [1]. At the moment, that source of randomness is completely elusive. It might be possible to create a random source from some form of binary astronomical event which can be widely verified but it would have an incredibly low bit rate of new randomness. One possible candidate is randomly nulling pulsars [2]. Unfortunately, the equipment required to observe this phenomenon is probably not widely available outside of large observatories. Having…

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On the absence of pulses from pulsars — mentioned by barbegal