Questions tagged [blockchain]
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What important/crucial real-world applications use blockchain?
As part of some blockchain-related research I am currently undertaking, the notion of using blockchains for a variety of real-world applications are thrown about loosely.
Therefore, I propose the ...
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Agreeing on a Time in a Trustless Network
Imagine a chord-like network $N$. each machine $m \in N$ is directly connected to $N_m \subset N$.
Without relying on official timeservers, I want all machines to synchronize to some time with ...
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How many number of nodes we can create under hyperledger fabric?
We are using hyperledger fabric. We have a doubt like, is there any limit, of creating number of nodes while configuring hyperledger fabric?
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Why are forks in the Blockchain eventually resolved?
I'm reading Wattenhofer's The Science of the Blockchain. On page 87, he states the following thoerem:
Theorem 7.22. Forks are eventually resolved and all nodes eventually agree on which is the ...
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What is the algorithm for Blockchain's Byzantine Fault Tolerance?
This person was asked: "Why is a blockchain implementation different than a distributed consensus system like Raft?"
In part of their answer they replied:
For one, Raft is not Byzantine fault ...
