{"id":952,"date":"2019-08-15T12:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/org.saito.tech\/?p=952"},"modified":"2019-08-15T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:57:16","slug":"conflux-taking-a-dag-based-approach-to-scaling-proof-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/conflux-taking-a-dag-based-approach-to-scaling-proof-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflux \u2014 taking a DAG-based approach to scaling proof-of-work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode we sit down with Conflux&#8217;s P\u00e9ter Garamv\u00f6lgyi (core developer) and Zhe Tang (operations manager) to hear their thoughts on how to solve the scalability trilemma.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developed by a group of computer scientists from the University of Toronto (one of show co-host David\u2019s alma maters) and Tsinghua University in Beijing (also home to The Saito Social), the project has garnered attention thanks to the involvement of Dr Andrew Chi-Chih Yao \u2014 the only Chinese recipient of the Turing Award \u2014 as well as a $35 million funding round last year, which included backing from the likes of Sequoia China.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us as we dig into their proposal to combine a DAG data structure with Satoshi\u2019s Proof of Work consensus algorithm as a way of delivering increased throughput \u2014 all while seeking to maintain the chain\u2019s properties of security and decentralisation. As always: your co-hosts are Saito\u2019s Richard Parris and David Lancashire. Feedback welcome via info@saito.tech<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we sit down with Conflux&#8217;s P\u00e9ter Garamv\u00f6lgyi (core developer) and Zhe Tang (operations manager) to hear their thoughts on how to solve the scalability trilemma. Developed by a group of computer scientists from the University of Toronto&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.saito.tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}