tendermint/paper.tex

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\title{Tendermint Byzantine Consensus Algorithm}


\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Zarko Milosevic}
}


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%\begin{abstract}
%The paper formally introduces blockchain problem and present Tendermint, %algorithm that solves blockchain in the partially synchronous system model.
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%\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Blockchain, Byzantine Fault Tolerance, State Machine %Replication


\input{definitions}
\input{consensus}

%\section*{Acknowledgment}


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