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Phrase: Binary Byzantine Agreement (BBA)

Related: #consensus

ELI5: The proposal, decision-making process, and eventual conclusion/convergence of a two-option Byzantine-contexted scenario.
Process of a distributed network coming to an agreement between two options.

Operating Definition:

Binary byzantine consensus concerns the problem of getting a set of distinct processes distributed across a network to agree on a single binary value 0 or 1 where processes can fail in arbitrary ways.¹

Current Implementation:

See #PoW and #PoS consensus mechanisms of which can be high-level organized into three academic categories:

1. Classical
2. Nakamoto
3. DAG-Based Consensus (Avalanche-like)

The Idea(l):

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Logos Implementation:

Glacier

Live Feedback:

Discord Server: Status Discord Server Text-Channel: #research-consensus

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