Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 07:10:34 AM

Quote from: Captain-Cryptory on Today at 05:35:37 AM

Nope, that article in the wiki you refer to is misleading in some way as network consensus (defined by Satoshi and referenced in my above post) differs from rules of Bitcoin as to the transaction validation. Those rules to validate transaction are the the set of rules to ensure that transactions in the block follow correct protocol to build them (all scripts are valid and so on) and the record of those transaction included into the block is correct.

the rules you refer to (following the chain with the most proof of work) can be categorized under the same category of consensus rules. as i said they include block and transaction validation. there are more rules under block verification that include verifying the proof of work of that block, finding chain splits and following the longest chain,...

can be - probably yeah, should (or even must) be - a solid nope. It's better to revive the original meaning of concepts, otherwise it will be hard to cope with topic. I prefer to distinguish between the networking "consensus" and the rules for Bitcoin. There are plenty of serious research papers on that, and Google is the best hand in this case.