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I may be misreading the summaries, but it seems like this is sort of a "bitcoin-like" style protocol, albeit with the history dags being stored centrally, plus additional machinery for all the standard certificate functionality. Am I interpreting this proposal correctly?

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It's not really bitcoin-like other than the fact the store is append only. There aren't any DAGs in SK. There aren't really any DAGs in the bitcoin blockchain either (correction: bitcoin transactions - not blocks - do actually form a DAG). There is a tree with a single "correct" path that everyone eventually agrees on (the one which had the most work/computation go into it).

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