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* PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance)
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* DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)
* DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)
== Sources: ==
[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consensus-mechanism-cryptocurrency.asp#:~:text=A%20consensus%20mechanism%20is%20a,systems%2C%20such%20as%20with%20cryptocurrencies. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consensus-mechanism-cryptocurrency.asp#]

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A consensus mechanism is a fault-tolerant mechanism that is used in computer and blockchain systems to achieve the necessary agreement on a single data value or a single state of the network among distributed processes or multi-agent systems, such as with cryptocurrencies.

Consensus mechanisms

Some Consensus mechanisms are:

  • POW (Proof of Work) a very well known mechanism, invented by the famous pseudonym - Satoshi Nakomoto
  • POS (Proof of Stake)
  • DPOS (Delegated Proof of Stake)
  • PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance)
  • DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)

Sources:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consensus-mechanism-cryptocurrency.asp#