Whitepaper Wednesday: Lamport Clocks PART 2

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

THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF AUGUST 12th's MEETUP. WE HAVE 1/2 THE PAPER LEFT TO TALK ABOUT.

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/