19. Getting Started with Tendermint
Tendermint provides infrastructure software that allows developers to build their own blockchain solutions. The Tendermint approach has two unique characteristics.
Tendermint utilizes a Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) algorithm that allows for up to one-third of nodes failing or behaving maliciously.
Tendermint consensus is reached by designated validator nodes. There are only a limited number of validators on the network.
At its core, Tendermint is a high-performance and scalable consensus engine. As a trade-off, it is also a weakly centralized solution; it is not completely decentralized like Bitcoin, as it requires designated validators and is somewhat less fault tolerant (Bitcoin allows 49 percent of ...
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