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This comes quite a bit after the post was published, hehe. First of all, that's a decent overview of Byzantine Agreement. My unsolicited feedback would be to simplify technical content even more where possible. I know that there's an underlying story behind the name of the concept. Using that to explain the concept would surely land better, particularly with newbies in the space.

On another note, based on what was written above, does it mean that Solana's blockchain infrastructure is not Byzantine Fault Tolerant? We've seen on numerous occasions how the network couldn't handle to load, and was therefore taken offline for hours, even days on end. Does this make it a flawed architecture by design? How does this play into the decentralisation vs centralisation argument?

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