April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
244 pages
7h 20m
English
The purpose of the consensus mechanism is to allow the blockchain nodes to reach an agreement on the current state of transactions. The consensus mechanism must also be fault-tolerant, meaning that it must be able to function even in the presence of malfunctioning or dishonest nodes. This requirement leads us to the famous Byzantine Generals Problem, or Byzantine failure problem.
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