Watchers instead of Consensus

[GregMagarshak]

By the way I just saw this and realized that other outsiders of the project like Vitalik Buterin have had similar concerns about “what if a consensus group fails”.

Vitalik Buterin on MaidSafe's consensus mechanism

During the Zapchain AMA that is going on right now the following question came up: “Hey Vitalik, I heard you say many times that the problem with blockchains and scalability is that every node has to process every transaction. MaidSafe has a consensus mechanism based on close groups around nodes, which allows for scaling. Do you foresee any way something similar could work for blockchains?” his answer: "Maidsafe’s approach is very similar fundamentally to the random-sample paradigm I des…