// Hacker Noon · 17 February 2026

Educational Byte: How Crypto Networks Reach Consensus

Consensus is the shared process a decentralized network uses to decide which transactions are valid, and in what order they appear. The system must answer the question of how to agree on which of the many copies of the ledger in a distributed system is legitimate.

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