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A foundational thought experiment in distributed computing describing how independent parties can reach reliable agreement when some participants may be unreliable or dishonest, and which underpins modern consensus design.
Origin: first formalised in a 1982 paper by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease; Bitcoin’s 2008 whitepaper credits solving this problem as its core innovation.
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