Distributed Ledger

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Compares Paxos/Raft to PoW and Hashgraph, arguing proof-of-work is slow and energy‑heavy — roughly one minute per Bitcoin block and ~2^40 trials (~1 trillion) to hit 40 leading zero bits, and showing a Hashgraph prototype: SDK jar, four local nodes, gossip + virtual voting reaches identical consensus order in the demo. Hashgraph claims leaderless, median timestamping for fairness and sharded groups with a 39‑member governance (permissioned, proof‑of‑stake node assignment) aiming for higher throughput and practical decentralisation.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:31Agenda
3. 3:13Consensus Algorithm
4. 7:38Proof-of-Work
5. 10:48Principle of Thermodynamics
6. 19:01Demo
7. 20:10Initiate the Consensus Platform

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