How to pronounce “byzant” in English

They have their Byzantine Empire statue, their Basquiat over here, and then rubber duckies from Lufthansa.

What is the Byzantine Empire, and why should we just call it the Roman Empire?

have to navigate this Byzantine system to get the appropriate visa to be able to start your company in the US.

And in the Byzantine-fault tolerant model, you assume that agents can fail by behaving arbitrarily.

It's Byzantine, and it's built around pre-existing systems that aren't even relevant anymore and haven't been for a very long time, for the most part.

stable empire that is the Byzantine Empire protected the forces from everything that came from the east.

You've described that the Byzantine Empire is the Roman Empire, that calling it the Byzantine Empire is an invention of historians writing long after the empire has collapsed,

way to break free from a Byzantine monopolistic nightmare that we've been living under for the last 25 years? So,

And it's like a sort of Byzantine voting scheme, that eventually we wind up with a ballot of 15 names, which is the one that was announced the other day.

And then I'll discuss Federated Byzantine Agreement, which is a generalization of Byzantine Agreement, to a model that could actually accommodate this kind of internet-level consensus.

What happens when you have Byzantine failure?

And the key idea in Federated Byzantine Agreement is that we're going to pick our quorums in a decentralized way.

So the first big difference between Federated Byzantine Agreement and the standard centralized Byzantine Agreement is that in the Federated model, failure

With that, Byzantium could finally make its own silk.

So the big difference here is that when you have a Byzantine failure, the failed node, it can actually change its vote.

And there exist long-standing solutions to the Byzantine agreement protocol in this problem, in this model.

Well, remember these Byzantine malicious nodes, they can give inconsistent messages to different people.

Mario Batali: Stretching out eastward toward Greece and Byzantium.

And the thing that protected Europe for centuries was the existence of the Byzantine Empire, the East Roman Empire, because of all the threats-

By the mid-sixth century, the Byzantine Empire was in trouble.

So now I'm going to talk about this new model called Federated Byzantine Agreement, which is a generalization of standard Byzantine Agreement to a setting where you don't

that statement settled. So a Federated Byzantine Agreement system is basically a set of nodes V and a quorum function Q, where Q of V is the set of slices

He's also the host of two history podcast series. The first called 12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire is one of the first, if not

And then you also, you have another book that talks about the Byzantine Empire, so you have the creative destruction that resulted in Europe,

that the people of that time considered themselves Romans, and that the so-called Byzantine Empire never actually existed, that it was, in every legal and cultural sense, the Roman Empire

And he was called Rumi because he was a Roman, a Byzantine citizen.

So actually, we get Plato and Aristotle from the Byzantine Empire, which was basically the remnants of the Roman Empire.

First, I'm going to give some background and cover Byzantine Agreement.

So in fact, the property that's necessary for safety in the presence of Byzantine failures is that we need quorum intersection despite the behavior of any ill-behaved nodes.

It's a beautiful country and it's got great, not just Byzantine sites, but ancient Roman sites.

Ages as the Dark Ages in the western world uh is largely because of course the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine

Your writing and podcasts take us from the Vikings to the Normans to Crusades, to the collapse of the East Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire.

And that's certainly the history of Christianity has a big role to play in the history of Europe, in the history of the Byzantine Empire,

- The following is a conversation with Anthony Kaldellis, a historian of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire.

- So Lex, the burden of proof is on those who would assert that what we've been calling the Byzantine Empire is something other-

created these models where They were, they called it Empire of the Greeks for 1,000 years, then they switched to Byzantine Empire for very political reasons. Now that's collapsing.

- Yes. - Uh, and then maybe what are the different terms that we could be using for the Byzantine Empire, including Byzantium?

... kinda cosmopolitan, who, you know, reads the same stuff, because we posit this rupture between Roman and Byzantine.

- And we should say, going to Perplexity here, the Hippodrome of Constantinople was the main stadium and social center of the Byzantine capital,

And it's possible that those dipped purple pages might also have been imported, perhaps from as far away as Byzantium.

black residents of the city and constructed all sorts of increasingly insane, enraging, and Byzantine means of doing this, including municipal court summons.

And you can see straight away how blended that is, just looking at it, with the dome there, which is reminiscent of the Byzantine style

that means, if you want an honest node in there, then the greatest number of Byzantine failures you can tolerate is going to be 2T minus N minus 1.

So to summarize, let's say you have a set U of well-behaved nodes in a Federated Byzantine Agreement system.

So now the question is, can we actually achieve this kind of optimal failure resistance in a Federated Byzantine Agreement system?

Jerry Holkins: And I, you know, so we started to host it elsewhere which was, you know, and at the time was a byzantine process. But I wrote some -