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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
May. 24, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Yacov Manevich, Haifa, IL;
Artem Barger, Haifa, IL;
Marko Vukolić, Rueschlikon, CH;
Alessandro Sorniotti, Rueschlikon, CH;
Angelo De Caro, Zürich, CH;
Elli Androulaki, Zürich, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by each of one or more peripheral peers of a blockchain network, a sequence of new blocks from an orderer peer, calculating hashes for the sequence of new blocks, adding the hashes to a merkle tree, determining the merkle tree is different than merkle trees from a majority of peripheral peers, determining that one or more blocks that correspond to the different merkle trees from the majority of peripheral peers are different from the sequence of new blocks, and in response ceasing committing blocks to the blockchain network.