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The Cooper Union in NYC used to do something similar for over a century until they were forced to stop in 2014 due to a combination of many financial factors, including the financi…

Check out this interview I did for the Epicenter Podcast with Enigma, a company building an MPC implementation, for a decent intro to what MPC is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a…

I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching what I call “educational channels” on topics ranging from science to geopolitics to philosophy. Here's a list of a bunch of them. https://…

In PoW, you are trusting the miners.

Some other random generation techniques include commit-reveal schemes, BLS Threshhold Relays, VRFs, Private Hashchains, etc.

Also, two other comments regarding weak subjectivity: When you join the bitcoin blockchain, you need some trusted source to tell you the hash of the correct genesis block. Also, if…

You would have to compromise the devices of validators who have atleast 2/3 of the voting power. In Bitcoin, just compromise the devices of mining pools that have atleast 50% of th…

What centralized authority? The keys in the genesis block aren't owned by a single actor, but by multiple. You can keep the validator set static all the time (use the ones from the…

It's not a single private key. There are a lot of validators, even in the genesis block, and we assume that at least 2/3 of these validators are honest.

Unlike traditional BFT algorithms that have multiple validators with equal and static voting power, what Tendermint does is each validator has coins staked to them. These coins can…

Adding on to what coinculture said, the traditional BFT nature of Tendermint consensus gives it a lot of benefits over Nakamoto consensus such as 1-block finality and safety guaran…