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On Determinism
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Arguably, the most difficult part of blockchain programming is determinism - that is, ensuring that sources of indeterminism do not creep into the design of such systems.
See `this issue <https://github.com/tendermint/abci/issues/56>`__ for more information on the potential sources of indeterminism.
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* For a deeper dive, see `this thesis <https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9769>`__.
* There is also the `original whitepaper <https://tendermint.com/static/docs/tendermint.pdf>`__, though it is now quite outdated.