Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Wording improvement in terminology.md.
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Co-authored-by: Daira Emma Hopwood <[email protected]>
  • Loading branch information
nathan-at-least and daira authored Oct 16, 2023
1 parent 4786073 commit e906ab4
Showing 1 changed file with 1 addition and 1 deletion.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/terminology.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Definitions are sorted alphabetically.

<span id="definition-assured-finality"></span>**Assured Finality**: A protocol property that assures that transactions cannot be reverted by that protocol. As with all protocol guarantees, a protocol assumes certain conditions must be met. A transaction may either be final or not: transactions which are not final may not become final, whereas once transactions do achieve finality they retain that property indefinitely (so long as protocol requirements are met).

Importantly, it is not feasible for any protocol to prevent reversing final transactions "out of band" from the protocol, such as if a sufficiently large and motivated group of users forks the network to include a specific new validity rule reverting transactions. For this reason, we forego the term "absolute finality" sometimes used in consensus protocol technical discussions.
Importantly, it is not feasible for any protocol to prevent reversing final transactions "out of band" from the protocol, such as if a sufficiently large and motivated group of users forks the network to include a specific new validity rule reverting transactions. For this reason, we forego the term "absolute finality" sometimes used in technical discussions about consensus protocols.

<span id="definition-final"></span>**Final**: A protocol property of transactions. In this book, this always implies [assured finality](#definition-assured-finality), in contrast to concepts like "probabilistic finality" provided by [PoW](#definition-pow).

Expand Down

0 comments on commit e906ab4

Please sign in to comment.