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Nova’s case for proof of human work
An interactive introduction argues that verified physical execution could provide a permissionless basis for consensus.
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- The introduction traces its framing to the 1982 Byzantine Generals Problem and links consensus to questions of resource and power concentration.
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The argument begins with the Byzantine Generals Problem and extends the question of trustworthy agreement from computer networks to human society. Its section outline proceeds through reality, CAPTCHA, random audits and physical execution. The visible material supplies a motivation and a proposed direction, but not enough detail to determine how participants, witnesses or audits would work in an implemented protocol.
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