Electric-Coin-Company / tfl-book

A Trailing Finality Layer book for a proposed Zcash protocol change.
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Claim that "this design adds precisely one consensus rule" is incorrect #93

Closed daira closed 10 months ago

daira commented 10 months ago

The claim is here:

https://electric-coin-company.github.io/tfl-book/introduction/trailing-finality-layer-in-a-nutshell.html#minimal-consensus-rule-changes

In the case of Crosslink, not only does it add at least three consensus rules directly; but the whole BFT protocol must be considered part of consensus.