From 5ef7538e2a09b74942c33fa3e340d07f19e21ee2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mDuo13 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:25:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fixes per @intelliot's review --- content/concepts/introduction/intro-to-consensus.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/concepts/introduction/intro-to-consensus.md b/content/concepts/introduction/intro-to-consensus.md index f0479a61ba..98d48b83ca 100644 --- a/content/concepts/introduction/intro-to-consensus.md +++ b/content/concepts/introduction/intro-to-consensus.md @@ -65,6 +65,6 @@ For a longer exploration of how the XRP Ledger Consensus Protocol responds to va 1. Due to a mishap early in the XRP Ledger's history, [ledgers 1 through 32569 were lost](https://forum.ripple.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3613). (This loss represents approximately the first week of ledger history.) Thus, ledger #32570 is the earliest ledger available anywhere. Because the XRP Ledger's state is recorded in every ledger version, the ledger can continue without the missing history. New test networks still start with ledger index 1. -2. In Bitcoin, the current state is sometimes called the set of "UTXOs" (unspent transaction outputs). Unlike the XRP Ledger, a Bitcoin server must download the entire transaction history to know the full set of UTXOs and process new transactions. Currently (as of 2018), there have been some proposals to modify Bitcoin's consensus mechanism to periodically summarize the latest UTXOs so new servers would not need to do this. Etherium, which also uses a UTXO model, has already implemented a similar approach with a summary of the current state, called a _state root_, in each block. +2. In Bitcoin, the current state is sometimes called the set of "UTXOs" (unspent transaction outputs). Unlike the XRP Ledger, a Bitcoin server must download the entire transaction history to know the full set of UTXOs and process new transactions. As of 2018, there have been some proposals to modify Bitcoin's consensus mechanism to periodically summarize the latest UTXOs so new servers would not need to do this. Ethereum, which also uses a UTXO model, has already implemented a similar approach with a summary of the current state, called a _state root_, in each block. 3. A server does not need a direct connection to its trusted validators to hear from them. The XRP Ledger peer-to-peer network uses a _gossip protocol_ where servers identify each other by public keys and relay digitally-signed messages from others.