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What Is the “Byzantine Generals Problem”?

The Byzantine Generals Problem is a classic computer science thought experiment that illustrates the difficulty of achieving consensus among decentralized, potentially untrustworthy parties. In the context of blockchain, it refers to the challenge of ensuring that all nodes in a network agree on the true state of the ledger, even if some nodes are malicious (Byzantine failures).

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