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Blockchain systems need to solve consensus despite the presence of rational users and failures. The notion of (k, t)-robustness is key to derive impossibility results with k rational players and t faulty players. However, these t faulty players are always considered Byzantine in that they can act arbitrarily. What is less clear is whether these impossibilities hold if these faults are crashes.
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