There is a significant gap between the fields of distributed systems (and consensus) and game-theory.
There is one well known cryptocurrency innovator who, in a private group, denounced the usage of economics or game theory to secure the consensus of a cryptocurrency ledger, and the justification lacked rationality.
It may have been this gap in academia compounded with the irrational arguments put forth by somebody well known in the crypto currency community which prompted Vitalik to seek help from this community.
My bias is with my own work, so I would appreciate if anyone here could look over the security of the Tendermint protocol. To attack it first you must understand it. I can help you understand it. You can also read the source for the reference implementation on GitHub.
There is a significant gap between the fields of distributed systems (and consensus) and game-theory.
There is one well known cryptocurrency innovator who, in a private group, denounced the usage of economics or game theory to secure the consensus of a cryptocurrency ledger, and the justification lacked rationality.
It may have been this gap in academia compounded with the irrational arguments put forth by somebody well known in the crypto currency community which prompted Vitalik to seek help from this community.
My bias is with my own work, so I would appreciate if anyone here could look over the security of the Tendermint protocol. To attack it first you must understand it. I can help you understand it. You can also read the source for the reference implementation on GitHub.