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This lecture covers Byzantine consensus in decentralized systems, focusing on permissioned and permissionless consensus algorithms like Paxos, Raft, and Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. It also discusses Bitcoin consensus mechanisms, including Proof of Work and the longest/heaviest chain rule.