Educational Byte: Byzantine Generals Problem in Crypto —or There’s a Traitor Among Us

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/educational-byte-byzantine-generals-problem-in-crypto-or-theres-a-traitor-among-us . Have you ever played Among Us? Or at least heard of it? The Byzantine Generals Problem is something similar in distributed systems, like cryptocurrencies. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3 . You can also check exclusive content about #byzantine-generals-problem , #byzantine-fault-tolerance , #blockchain-byzantine-generals , #consensus-algorithms , #dag-blockchain , #obyte , #hackernoon-top-story , #good-company , and more. This story was written by: @obyte . Learn more about this writer by checking @obyte's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . In distributed systems like Bitcoin, there's no single authority making decisions. This means the network has to find ways to agree on the correct version of the transaction history. Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) is the ability of a system to still reach that shared agreement.