Here's an article which discusses Lamport's view: "The physics of distributed information systems"[1]. The first sentence: "This paper aims to present distributed systems as a new (interesting) area of applications of statistical physics, and to make the the case that statistical physics can be quite useful in understanding such systems."
It has several mentions of statistical physics, but (curiously) no mentions of entropy. It does however discuss the Byzantine Generals problem, which of course is the problem the bitcoin blockchain solves.
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Here's an article which discusses Lamport's view: "The physics of distributed information systems"[1]. The first sentence: "This paper aims to present distributed systems as a new (interesting) area of applications of statistical physics, and to make the the case that statistical physics can be quite useful in understanding such systems."
It has several mentions of statistical physics, but (curiously) no mentions of entropy. It does however discuss the Byzantine Generals problem, which of course is the problem the bitcoin blockchain solves.
1. http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/473/1/012017/pdf/1742-65...