The Problem of Distributed Consensus: A Survey

06/24/2021

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by   Stephen Wolfram, et al.

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A survey is given of approaches to the problem of distributed consensus, focusing particularly on methods based on cellular automata and related systems. A variety of new results are given, as well as a history of the field and an extensive bibliography. Distributed consensus is of current relevance in a new generation of blockchain-related systems.