One of the worst nightmares for the best blockchains, based on decentralized and distributed systems, is to become vulnerable because of a “byzantine fault”, i.e. “a fault presenting different symptoms to different observers” (Ayala 2016, p. 27)1.
To counter this in fully automated systems, some companies developed a strategy named “Byzantine fault tolerance”, i.e. services assuming there are not too...
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A historian’s observations on the worst blockchain problem, the “byzantine fault.”
One of the worst nightmares for the best blockchains, based on decentralized and distributed systems, is to become vulnerable because of a “byzantine fault”,...
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