How are hashes and transactions determined to be “valid” in Bitcoin? How are nodes determined to be “honest”? How much of this process is automated? Consensus is an agreement on what “valid” is.

These questions are from the MOOC sessions 7.2, 8.2, and 9.2 covering the Byzantine Generals’ Problem, which took place on February 26th 2017, September 15th 2017, and February 23rd 2018 respectively. Andreas is a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia. The first course in their Master of Science in Digital Currency degree, DFIN-511: Introduction to Digital Currencies, is offered for free as an open enrollment MOOC course to anyone interested in learning about the fundamental principles.

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24 COMMENTS

  1. Hi, I have some questions
    do the miners validate transactions ?
    should the transaction spread across the network until it reaches all the nodes ?
    do the nodes conserve the same mempool ?
    do miners keep a copy of the mempool?
    which inciste nodes to validate transactions ?
    finally I want to know what is the difference between a wallet and the Bitcoin client ?

  2. Hi Andreas I just want to give a big shoutout to you from Indonesia! I really hope that you are always well, and you are the voice of the people who does not have a voice. A lot of people are impacted positively in ways no one can imagine indirectly by your work without them ever knowing it! I hope that you will pay a visit to Indonesia, I'd be glad to be your host and bring you around in Jakarta

  3. How do other nodes verify that the hash of a new block actually came from solving an algorithm rather than someone typing a bunch of characters that collectively constitute a number below the target difficulty?

  4. Whats the difference between running a full node on public ip and non public? As far as u understand this, all those 100k passive nodes are behind ISP ip and are not visible for others, so 100k nodes are just downloading all info from that 15k visible nodes?

    How can we check the trx status in full node wallet? I dont see there any option for that..

    Thanks for all that years of educating the world about this great invention in the most friendly and understandable way Andreas!

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