Consensus
A consensus mechanism is the process in which a majority (or in some cases all) of network validators come to agreement on the state of a ledger. It is a set of rules and procedures that allows maintaining coherent set of facts between multiple participating nodes.[1]
Classical definition
Blockchain consensus definition
Consensus is a partial(weak) order computable relation on the space of blockchain states.
See also
External links
- Partially ordered set. Wikipedia.