The Byzantine Generals dillema
I did not understand it, until I had to do it. With my students of the My First Bitcoin we did an exercise of attacking a Castle last Saturday.
We attached and we failed. Because there were "traitors". Messages were passed to NOT attack, while, I, the King of Kura Piedra (this is Stone Fence) have said we should attack together at dawn.
I created this exercise for Lesson 6 of the My First Bitcoin certificate. I consulted with my mentor Huxley and with my AI, Ava.
Here you will see the whole script and the whole activity, that you can play with your family and with your children.
π.docx
Because My First Bitcoin is open source. We try to share our knowledge amongst all the educational nodes in the world. So BTC Curacao Institute, the Peter Kroll family, sponsors this event in our beautiful Orange House at Eden Mall.
And then, we added Proof of Work. Simply moving 3 stones from a red dot to a green dot. Putting the messages on the ledger so everybody can see them. And the longest chain wins. So we all attacked. Successfully.
No trust. No cheating. Consensus. From the rules and the Proof of Work, consensus is born. Now I understood it.
Try it yourself. With your family.

Attack at Dawn
Runy Calmera
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