Consensus mechanism
The set of rules a blockchain network uses to agree on which transactions are valid and what the single shared history is, despite having no central authority. Proof of work and proof of stake are the two best-known examples (see those entries); the consensus mechanism is what keeps thousands of independent computers in agreement.
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