March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
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Sawtooth Lake
Sawtooth Lake can run in both permissioned and non-permissioned modes. It is a distributed ledger that proposes two novel concepts: the first is the introduction of a new consensus algorithm called Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET); and the second is the idea of transaction families.
A description of these novel proposals is given in the following sections.