South Korea’s largest public blockchain project, ICON (ICX), announced its new Loop Fault Tolerance 2.0 (LFT 2.0) consensus algorithm on April 8. The new algorithm claims to make performance ...

The properties and features certain blockchains have solely hinge upon the problems they are to solve. This simple idea has an infinite load of underlying content related to popular delusions among ...

A Hong Kong-based Matrix AI Network is developing a prototype of a new hybrid PoS/PoW consensus algorithm. This update was shared with Cointelegraph by Owen Tao, the company’s CEO. Tao described ...

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One of Bitcoin’s most unique features is its consensus algorithm, which set the precedent for a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) peer-to-peer currency system. The most common definition of Bitcoin’s ...

Blockchain projects have received their fair share of rap thanks to the energy consumption. But this may change with the usage of power-saving mechanisms. Consensus mechanisms are the lifeline that ...

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With billions of computers talking to each other daily, how do they decide anything? Even in a database or server deployment, how do the different computers that make up the database decide what ...