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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Satoshi didn't solve the Byzantine generals problem
by
Come-from-Beyond
on 18/09/2015, 07:33:54 UTC
Bitcoin is Byzantine resilient because of PoW and Game theory. Bitcoin follows Nakamoto consensus, but all Byzantine consensus algos are only resistant up to 51% or less.

Before satoshi, byzantine agreement models could only deal with 33% bad actors.

Bitcoin is resistant to 33% only, 51% number was mistakenly calculated without taking Selfish Mining into account.