# Chain-based PBFT and BFT-based Proof of Stake

Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus

### Pros

* BFT provide strong finality guarantees in that either all honest nodes will adopt a block or none will (thus eliminating the possibility of forks and rollbacks found in Bitcoin)&#x20;

### Cons

* Existing BFT algorithms normally do not scale well.


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