Consensus and replication protocols that appeared in the 1980s have made profound contributions in consensus protocol research. Early replication protocols like viewstamped replication provided deep insights into how fault-tolerant replication can be designed and implemented. Around the same time, Paxos was introduced, which offered a practical protocol with rigorous formal specification and analysis. In 1999, the first practical Byzantine fault–tolerant protocol was introduced. This chapter covers these classical protocols in detail, ...
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I. BashirBlockchain Consensus https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8179-6_77. Classical Consensus
Imran Bashir1
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