Notations:
- Transaction
t
: a value submitted by a client of the FBA network that can be independently validated by each node. - Transaction Set
s^v
: a set of transactions submitted by clients to a particular node v. - Node block
b^v
: of the form<s^v, H(B)>
a transaction set and a reference to a master block - Master block
B
: of the form<s^0, s^1, s^3, ..., s^n>
a set of node blocks (at most one per node) - Hash funciton
H(.)
: hash function that may include signature as security requires
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