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Is there a consensus as to what is meant by 'Nakamoto Consensus'?
From this article: https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-the-nakamoto-consensus
Prior to Satoshi’s creation of the Nakamoto Consensus, Byzantine Fault
Tolerance was used in peer-to-...
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What stage of the bitcoin protocol deals (or 'solves') the double-spend problem?
There are multiple parts of the protocol that play together to concert a solution to the doublespend problem.
Transactions generally have first-party mutability: just like Mallory can promise the same ...
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