===== Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) =====
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**Byzantine Fault Tolerance** is the characteristic of a system that is able to tolerate a class of failures called a [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:b:byzantine_fault]] described by the [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:b:byzantine_generals_problem| Byzantine Generals’ Problem]]((
"Understanding Blockchain Fundamentals, Part 1: Byzantine Fault Tolerance",
Georgios Konstantopoulos,
1 December 2017,
[[https://medium.com/loom-network/understanding-blockchain-fundamentals-part-1-byzantine-fault-tolerance-245f46fe8419 | Byzantine Fault Tolerance ]]
)).