Questions tagged [consensus]

FLP impossibility states that: No deterministic consensus protocol can guarantee safety, liveness and fault tolerance in an asynchronous system. What is the problem of this statement, and how does IOTA prevented this problem using its consensus…

I have heard from Moog that the branches of the Tangle are like branch's of a git repo and essentially each commit is a transaction. How does thus relate to the Tangle being able to form finality or consensus? I don't fully understand the analogy.

I noticed when initially googling "Monte Carlo Algorithm", google artificial intelligence was first to come up, providing no specifics on its workings. Is this proclaimed algorithm the same as used in Iota or is any correspondance…