From cc58b25270477df70826c15ec6dca3564181d4a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Fitzgerald Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:30:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update description --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1646cad8e..d040c4834 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,8 +3,16 @@ # :punch: phist :punch: -An implementation of Loom's Proof-of-History. - +Loom is a new achitecture for a high performance blockchain. Its whitepaper boasts a theoretical +throughput of 710k transactions per second on a 1 gbps network. The first implementation of the +whitepaper is happening in the 'loomprotocol/loom' repository. That repo is aggressively moving +forward, looking to de-risk technical claims as quickly as possible. This repo is quite a bit +different philosophically. Here we assume the Loom architecture is sound and worthy of building +a community around. We care a great deal about quality, clarity and short learning curve. We +avoid the use of `unsafe` Rust and an write tests for *everything*. Optimizations are only +added when corresponding benchmarks are also added that demonstrate real performance boots. We +expect the feature set here will always be a long ways behind the loom repo, but that this is +an implementation you can take to the bank, literally. # Developing