'Exploring JavaScript and Smart Contracts with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble' web3 oct_network
securable than most other programming languages, due in large measure to the contributions of our, Chief Scientist, Mark Miller. He’s has been driving the needed elements into JavaScript from our earlier secure language work since the beginning. His 2015 paper at financial cryptography on “Capability-based Financial Instruments” showed examples in the E programming language that you can now write in JavaScript on Agoric.
, and runs in any standard JS environment. It’s the backbone of MetaMask’s next gen wallet, used in Salesforce’s AppExchange, and of course used for our smart contract platform.Dean Tribble, that’s incredible! You had quite the journey.
multiple computers in different jurisdictions and different administrative domains all coming to consensus about data, choices, and computation.
Means that no human, organization, or government can unilaterally change the systems behavior. They would have to simultaneously compromise a majority of machines to compromise the integrity of computation.Choices: “Dean tried to withdraw his offer before the auction closed. Did he win the auction and spend his money or did he get his money back?”Apr 15, 2022, 5:20 PM
The novel hard technical part is “all coming to consensus”. If you know all the computers and you can rely on them all to not cheat , then we know how to count votes and make sure it’s a majority. The area of Byzantine Fault Tolerance covers handling the “what if they cheat”. The most brilliant insight in BitCoin was how to address consensus when you don’t know all the participating computers.