In my previous post I described an approach to On Tangle Voting where every message is considered a vote. The opinion expressed by each vote is derived by counting the opinions it has “seen” in its past cone and assigning a message to whichever branch has more approval weight according…

On Voting on the Tangle (on the Tangle) What follows is a sketch for a variation on On Tangle Voting (originally outlined here). For those of you who’ve been following the development of OTV, the motivation for this proposal is the simplification of tip selection and resilience against a metastability…

One way you could describe a distributed ledger is a network of machines which tell each other the truth. In a distributed ledger networked nodes send messages back and forth that look this: