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<p>Peers leverage gossip to broadcast ledger and channel data in a scalable fashion.
Gossip messaging is continuous, and each peer on a channel is
constantly receiving current and consistent ledger data from multiple
peers. Each gossiped message is signed, thereby allowing Byzantine participants
sending faked messages to be easily identified and the distribution of the
message(s) to unwanted targets to be pre