- A byzantine fault is a condition of a distributed computing system, where a fault occurs such that different symptoms are presented to different observers, including imperfect information on whether a system component has failed
- BFT or Byzantine Fault Tolerance is the resilience of a system to avoid Byzantine Faults by arriving at a concensus among nodes across an unrealiable channel
- Byzantine fault on Wikipedia
- BEAT: Asynchronous BFT Made Practical