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>BTW Paxos also has a leader - this is what makes these protocols efficient.

That's the funny part of Paxos. Paxos is specifically sold as a multi-proposer protocol. The most subtle and hard to understand part of the protocol is the clever 2 phase proposal election with value inheritance. But it's all pointless because in order to make the system work you need a single coordinator you elect using timeouts or reliable message protocols.



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