# Distributed consensus

`kaal:entity:distributed-consensus`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `distributed-consensus`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2022.

**2018**

- [3227967-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-018) [mechanism/argued] -- Because blockchain network nodes verify, validate and audit transactions both before and after execution, the model is safer than a traditional one in which transactions can only be accomplished through third party intermediaries such as a bank, judiciary or notary.
  > verify, validate and audit transactions before and after they are executed. 49 This is safer than a traditional model in which transactions can only be accomplished through third-party intermediaries, such as a bank, judiciary or notary.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967

**2022**

- [4021599-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4021599-004) [mechanism/argued] -- Blockchain's distributed consensus model makes fraudulent transactions much less likely to be recorded because individual network nodes verify and validate chain transactions before those transactions execute.
  > recorded as individual network nodes verify and validate chain transactions before the execution of the transactions.3 The resulting
  Wulf A. Kaal, Securities Versus Utility Tokens (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4021599

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