Previous discussion (in 2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326645 Also, I personally think the current

Previous discussion (in 2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326645 Also, I personally think the current blockchain literature is much more intuitive and easier to follow, for learning about consensus. The Byzantine case isn't really that different than the crash case if we assume cryptography. On the other hand, Raft is a spiderweb of a protocol, very easy to get wrong.