How can a group of mutually distrustful nodes agree on the same ledger? Many people can't answer!
PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance), proposed by Castro and Liskov in 1999, made BFT consensus feasible in real-world systems.
The “two-thirds” threshold ensures that any two valid votes share at least some honest nodes, so two contradictory results can never be confirmed at the same time.
Understanding the principles can help you avoid pitfalls, but it can't replace risk management.
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