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How throughput, latency, finality, waiting time are defined?
I am confused with the below terms. Could someone explain them in simple terms and confirm that my rationale below is correct?
Waiting Time - Throughput - Finality - Latency - Confirmation Time
I have ...
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Will every message x reach all connected peers in time t?
I've asked similar question here:
Is gossip protocol in Bitcoin perfect?
But I didn't get an answer to my question really. I am ideating a consensus algorithm and I need definitive answer.
Can we ...
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Is Bitcoin's gossip protocol perfect?
With Bitcoin's gossip protocol, could we take it for granted that if I sent a transaction, for example, at 1:00 PM on 1st January 2018 UTC that then every node connected to network at 1:00 PM would ...
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How propagation delay depends on the block size?
According the paper 'Information propagation in the bitcoin network'. by Decker and Wattenhofer.
For sizes larger than 20kB the cost can be said to be constant, whereas for small sizes there is a ...
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