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A byzantine fault is where an error has occured, yet a computer system does not know due which component/what failed to the lack of information and continues to iterate on a given instruction.
An example of a byzantine fault tolerant distributed computing system that accounts this is the Bitcoin blockchain which utilizes the Proof-of-Work system to achieve consensus on the blockchain.
It is the "second layer" or an off-chain of payment protocol that operates on top of a blockchain. Payments on this network do not need block confirmation and it will be instant.
Open-source software is a type of software released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.
