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The Time to Consensus in a Blockchain: Insights into Bitcoin's "6 Blocks Rule''

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Main Authors:	Dey, Partha S., Gopalan, Aditya S., Subramanian, Vijay G.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Probability
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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