The AIM-9X is infrared imaging based rather than heat signature based. The pilot resolves that contrast between the object and sky before firing the missile and missile targets the object based on the image.
It's impossible to defend the lack of generics in golang in the face of the fact that two of the larger open source projects both invented their own generics implementations.
I prefer if people differentiate between systems with a PKI and systems without a PKI.
Systems without a PKI like PoW or PoET can be rather centralized like Bitcoin today or decentralized like Bitcoin before the emergence of mining pools.
Systems with a PKI can have an onchain PKI like Cosmos. One of the challenges in an on chain PKI system is you need some of kind social pre-consensus on launch. The crowdfunding established an part of an initial pre-consensus but there are more moving pieces coming.
Because someone needs to show you a valid set of transitions in the PKI from the original keys in the genesis block to the current attacker controlled PKI.
In a BFT protocol based cryptocurrency, an attacker who acquired 2/3rds of the tokens in the network would be able to double spend at will and censor transactions to gain control of more of the network.
They would not be able to rewrite past history.
The only response to an attack would be hard fork.
The point of this format to push data over the wire in a format that is both semantically richer and authenticatable using techniques like object-hash. This gets us to one true unambiguous representation of the data which you need for redactable signatures and rich credentials.
I'm surprised that Google decided that microsat imaging market was a distraction. It seems very high potential and synergistic with Google's other space based endeavors.