Whitepaper Wednesday: Lamport Clocks

Comp Sci whitepaper discussion group, led by noted bitcoin explainor @niftynei

This week’s paper: Leslie Lamport’s Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

Last month talked about Lamport Signatures, and wrote a small Lamport sigs generator/verifier. This month we're digging into what is arguably Leslie's most famous paper, the one where he defines what would become to be known as "Lamport Clocks".

Paper, and his reflections on it, available at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/time-clocks-ordering-events-distributed-system/