Consensus Evolution: From Proof-of-Work to a Deterministic Foundation

The endgame of consensus is determinism. Pluggable consensus trades off determinism and performance; weak-node friendly, no privileged nodes.

A blockchain’s trust ultimately rests on one question: how to get nodes that do not trust each other to agree on “what comes first, and which one counts.” That is the consensus mechanism.

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