What is consensus hash used for?
It identifies which fork-set the Blockstack Core node belongs to (note that the database log Blockstack embeds within the Bitcoin blockchain is fork*-consistent). Please see the virtualchain paper for details.
A consensus hash isn’t present in the NAME_REGISTRATION
transaction simply because we didn’t have space to include it . However, it doesn’t affect the fork*-consistency property of the Blockstack name database, since the pair of NAME_PREORDER
/NAME_REGISTRATION
transactions constitutes a single operation on the database.
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So what will consensus hash
be compared with? It is used when a Blockstack node scans the Bitcoin transactions and compares the current consensus hash from network with the consensus hash in the transaction? If it is same then the transaction is valid?