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Ok, the red flag to me is the reliance on all neighbours responding to a proposal.

Suppose we have a faulty node heart-beating correctly but not responding to proposals, or selectively responding to proposals.

This would seem to imply that dishonest nodes have full control over which decisions are made.

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see later in the article, Ctrl+F "mushrooms"

I will stop looking into this now, I have to get back to my work. The colorful language doesn't make it easy for someone who follows the literature to review your idea.

I still have doubts that you can handle a dropped message or how much control a faulty node has over decisions, but I'll leave that to you to work out.

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