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A review paper on characteristics of blockchain presents the following source proposition: This reputation stems from its ability to enable mutually distrusting entities to exchange financial value and communicate without the need for a trusted third party. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Peer-to-peer transactions are possible because a distributed consensus model has network nodes verify, validate and audit transactions before and after execution, and this is often safer than routing transactions through a single trusted third-party intermediary. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
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