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I’ve done it (years ago). 4 managers fired in 8 months. I had to leave so I could do actual work. Seeing these Twitter reports is giving me flashbacks.

I can't seem to edit my comment, but I'm mistaken. Algorand uses Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs) and not VDFs at all.

As an aside, the algorand layer-1 chain uses VDFs to select a validating set per block, weighting member selection by how much crypto each account owns. They call it Pure Proof of …

Sure. But last I checked nobody had more than one.

What do you mean by "people with multiple Turing awards"?

Not exactly what you described, but overviews DoD role in development of internet technologies and SV: https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-...

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You do realize that there are literally people buying coffee in meatspace today using lightning? https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/955870434230132736

Or asteroid mining

Thanks, the question makes more sense now :)

This sounds like a phone screen--i've never signed an NDA for phone screens or at any stage of the interview process for that matter.

"how do you count the bits most efficiently?" What does this even mean?

quicksort is O(n^2) which is definitely not the "best big-O" for sorting.

TLSNotary is one approach: https://tlsnotary.org , although I'm not certain it provides trusted timestamps.

Stanford?

Do you have an example where this has happened? (in Bitcoin that is, not Ethereum).

I wonder if a Blockchain system would mitigate the feasibility of this kind of attack and make it easier to trace the destination of the stolen funds?