Formal Analyses and Definitions of Xxxxxxxx Consensus Sample Clauses

Formal Analyses and Definitions of Xxxxxxxx Consensus. There is currently no agreed-upon definition of Xxxxxxxx consensus. One may only consider individual aspects of the Bitcoin protocol, or its entirety. However, the term is finding its way into more and more publications and we believe it is a suitable descriptor for this novel consensus approach. A fundamental difficulty in providing a good generalized definition lies in the tight interaction between the various mechanisms that make up the Bitcoin protocol. We outline formalization approaches of the Bitcoin protocol in a time- ordered fashion (taking into account that pre-prints and e-prints were sometimes published much earlier than the peer-reviewed publications) to paint a coherent picture how the field has evolved over the recent years. Single-Shot anonymous Byzantine consensus: In [MJ14] Xxxxxx and XxXxxxx give the first formal presentation of Bit- value proposedi 0, 1 ∗, and must satisfy the following properties: ∈ { }