Show HN: Byztime – Byzantine-fault-tolerant time synchronization
github.comQuite interesting!
I'm curious about the use cases - I'd guess for distributed databases that rely on time synchronization? Or even for more general systems, accepting the time drift as a minor downside? (if the latter, is it planned to add external influence? it feels like it'd be possible to "smear" byztime to steer it closer to external time sources?)
So am I! Permissioned blockchains (essentially, as you say, distributed databases) are the motivating use case, but I'm excited to discover what uses other people come up with.