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Diving Deeper into Consensus

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I really am excited about the idea of incorporating physical properties of the environment into the Blockchain as they suggest here. Seems like that solves the problem of Oracle data in a much more reliable way, since network data is ephemeral while environment data can be corroborated later with multiple sources.

There is also an earlier post related to Proof-of-Coverage here: https://blog.helium.com/proof-of-coverage-useful-energy-effi...

For anyone interested in more reading:

- The whitepaper that goes into more detail on this can be found here: http://whitepaper.helium.com

- A lot of the code that makes this possible is pinned to the Helium repo on GH: https://github.com/helium/

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