https://jingyu.uk/tags/consensus/Jingyu Liu · PhD student in Financial Technology at HKUST (Guangzhou). Research in blockchain, mechanism design, and decentralized finance.en-UShttps://jingyu.uk/posts/byzanitne/https://jingyu.uk/posts/byzanitne/Fri, 06 Oct 2023 10:34:07 +0800<blockquote> <p>Some notes for the book &ldquo;Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains&rdquo; by Elaine Shi</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li> <p>What is a Byzantine Fault?</p> <ul> <li><strong>Crash Fault</strong>: Adversarial nodes do not send or receive any messages.</li> <li><strong>Omission Fault</strong>: Adversarial nodes selectively choose to drop or let through each message sent or received.</li> <li><strong>Byzantine Fault</strong>: Adversarial nodes can deviate from the protocol arbitrarily.</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>What is static assumption?</p>