></li>
<li><p>Disseminates ledger data across all peers on a channel. Any peer with data
that is out of sync with the rest of the channel identifies the
missing blocks and syncs itself by copying the correct data.</p></li>
<li><p>Bring newly connected peers up to speed by allowing peer-to-peer state
transfer update of ledger data.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Gossip-based broadcasting operates by peers receiving messages from
other peers on the channel, and then forwarding these messages to a number of
randomly select