Kaspa where to (Part II)

  BY: Yonatan Sompolinsky Crypto winters are warm for projects with character. Last month Michal Sutton and I published the DAGKNIGHT protocol (DK), which to the best of our knowledge is the first POW consensus protocol that is responsive to the network’s actual...
What is GHOSTDAG and DAGKNIGHT?

What is GHOSTDAG and DAGKNIGHT?

Short Version: GHOSTDAG allows us to make a chain out of the parallel blocks in the BlockDAG, which results in the same security guarantees provided by Nakamoto consensus (bitcoin), but with increased throughput and lower confirmation times. Long Version: The fact...

Kaspa where to (Part I)

BY: Yonatan Sompolinsky This is a concrete version of a longer post which I started writing but had too much spare time so didn’t complete yet.Context: One of Kaspa’s core devs, Michael Sutton, suggested a plan to order-of-magnitude enhance Kaspad full-node...