I have seen that the terms consensus mechanism and consensus algorithm are used interchangeably sometimes. Are they really the same or there is a subtlety to it?
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It's just a matter of abstraction. In general a mechanism is on a bit higher level of abstraction than an algorithm. It's something like "we have a mechanism to reach consensus - that mechanism is an algorithm".
So there isn't really any difference as such.
answered Apr 7, 2019 at 18:54
