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Distributed Consensus and Diffuse Trust Systems

Practitioner informative

Maintainer: Samuel M. Smith · checked 2026-10-15

A 39-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on distributed consensus as the basis of diffuse trust systems. It explains Byzantine agreement and Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) in detail, with quorum sizing, view changes and implementations, and backup slides on blockchains, elliptic curve cryptography, identity and key management. It is not about KERI.

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