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Re: Satoshi didn't solve the Byzantine generals problem
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TPTB_need_war
on 07/02/2016, 21:47:53 UTC
monsterer and smooth, I repeat again, how do you prove if a 51% attack is censoring transactions? In other words, how do you even detect it in an objective and provable manner?

A system which doesn't objectively (from the perspective of all observers) know when it is failing is not Byzantine fault tolerant.

Refer again to the Wikipedia definitions:

The following practical, concise definitions are helpful in understanding Byzantine fault tolerance:[3][4]

Byzantine fault
    Any fault presenting different symptoms to different observers
Byzantine failure
    The loss of a system service due to a Byzantine fault in systems that require consensus

This circular logic of yours is getting redundant. I have made my point and you have not refuted it.