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90 - Common Knowledge with Shrey Jain

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The Byzantine General's Problem: How Blockchain Facilitates Common Knowledge

The Byzantine Generals problem is solving it as the core innovation behind proof of work and Bitcoin. It's these consensus building mechanisms and the way that data is appended to the blockchain network that allows us to achieve close to common knowledge. What's known as common P belief. Because we can never achieve exact common knowledge if we can ever have a message fail.

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