Whitepaper Wednesday: Byzantine Generals

Comp Sci whitepaper discussion group, led by noted bitcoin explainor @niftynei

This week’s paper: Leslie Lamport’s Byzantine Generals Problem v2

Editor's Note: We're taking a second look at this paper.

Another classic distributed systems paper, herein Lamport et al lay out what is now the classic's Byzantine General's Problem. How do you arrive at consensus in an adversarial information environment?

Original paper, plus Leslie's notes can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-byzantine-generals/