Consensus: How The confits are being resolved

an Example of conflict
• Lets take an example of conflict
• Lets say All the nodes have synchronized the Blockchain and are at Block 100
• Three miners have mined the new Block 101 at nearly the same time
• All of their Block has a different signature hence are not exactly same
• Lets say their new block is 101a, 101b & 101c
• Which one must be the final new Block?? How will you resolve the conflict?
• In Bitcoin this problem is worth 25BTC or $18,735 as of today. Costly problem
isn’t it?

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Longest Chain rule
• In public Blockchains like Bitcoin’s Blockchain conflicts are being resolved by longest
chain rule.
• Lets say the a miner received the first Block 101a then he will start building the next
Block on top of that 101a Block.
• Now In a few seconds that miners sees another Block 101b, so that miner will keep
an eye on that new Block.
• If the next Block 102b is being detected from another nodes in Blockchain then that
miner will disregard the 101a and will accept the new longest chain which is 100 ->
101b -> 102b and so on.
101a

98 99 100 101b 102b 103b

101c

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How About Private Blockchain?
• Make a miner as arbitrator or trusted
• Block received that minor node first will be the final Block

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