Stellar Consensus Protocol: The PI Network Block chain
The developers of the Pi Network have created a new algorithm to validate the transactions, called the Stellar Consensus Protocol. (SCP) was architected by David Mazieres a professor of Computer Science at Stanford who also serves as a Chief Scientist at the Stellar Development Foundation.So…… All bitcoin nodes are competing against each other in solving a cryptographic puzzle. Because the solution is found randomly, essentially the node that finds the solution first, by chance, is elected the leader of the round who produces the next block. This algorithm is called “Proof of work” and results in a lot of energy consumption. Pi uses the other type of consensus algorithms and is based on the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) and an algorithm called Federated Byzantine Agreement (FBA). Such algorithms don’t have energy waste but they require exchanging many network messages in order for the nodes to come to “consensus” on what the next block should be. Each node can independently determin...