Immutability means your mistakes live on the blockchain forever. You're welcome.Satoshi Nakamoto (not really)
Every transaction, preserved for eternity. Every bad trade, immortalized in cryptographic amber. The blockchain never forgets and never forgives.
The Byzantine Generals Problem is a classic computer science puzzle: how can distributed parties agree on a shared truth when some participants might be dishonest? Satoshi's breakthrough was solving this problem in a practical way using proof of work. Bitcoin nodes around the world independently verify every transaction and agree on the state of the ledger without trusting each other β a feat once thought impossible.
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