Transaction confirmation process

If you haven’t yet, check out: specs/overview/Algorand_v1_spec-2.pdf at master · algorandfoundation/specs · GitHub
This should help to clear things up.

@nullun could likely best explain this. As part of your PhD research & study have you also considered looking into the Algorand source code and/or creating your own private network to figure this out yourself?
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