[POPL 2021] Keynote: "The road to a Universal Internet Machine" by Rachid Guerraoui

"The road to a Universal Internet Machine (Demystifying Blockchain Protocols)" NB this talk was disrupted by a service outage. There's a blank spot in the middle, the recording mode shifts, and Rachid restarts from a bit before where he was last. This talk will discuss what it would mean to build the abstraction of a widely distributed universal computer. In the process, the talk will revisit blockchain protocols through the lenses of first distributed computing principles and present simpler alternative protocols. https://popl21.sigplan.org/details/POPL-2021-research-papers/68/The-road-to-a-Universal-Internet-Machine-Demystifying-Blockchain-Protocols-