Why does Ethereum's whitepaper name the mind behind Kaspa?
Yonatan Sompolinsky (
@hashdag) and Aviv Zohar (
@Avivz78) introduced GHOST in December 2013. It counts stale blocks, valid blocks that lose the race onto the main chain, toward security instead of wasting them.
The Ethereum whitepaper credits both men by name.
@ethereum ran only a simplified version, and a later note added to the paper says it never fully applied GHOST.
Sompolinsky pushed the idea further with GHOSTDAG, co-written with Shai Wyborski and Zohar. It lets parallel blocks coexist and orders them all, discarding none.
GHOSTDAG powers
#Kaspa (kaspa:native), which launched on November 7, 2021.