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A comment on Tendermint 0.10.2.

Re:Tendermint 0.10.2 by misterbowfinger on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:33PM (#15176754)
> Tendermint is a distributed, byzantine fault-tolerant consensus system

what's "byzantine" mean in this context?

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Re:Tendermint 0.10.2 by coinculture on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:35PM (#15176779)
It means "arbitrary". Byzantine faults refer to "any arbitrary behaviour by the machine". The term was coined by Leslie Lamport in the early 80s when he defined the Byzantine Generals Problem
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Re:Tendermint 0.10.2 by jcassee on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:35PM (#15176784)
The Byzantine generals problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance

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Re:Tendermint 0.10.2 by lobster_johnson on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:53PM (#15176950)
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
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Re:Tendermint 0.10.2 by inglor on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @01:18PM (#15177181)
It means that not only the machines can fail by shutting down - they can send incorrect data.

I recommend this: http://techtv.mit.edu/genres/19-engineering/videos/16444-pra... which helped me learn how it works ~6 years ago :)

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