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turnip_burrito t1_j0wg2q2 wrote

Reply to comment by theDropout in Everything an average person should know about Web 3 at this time, and how this will be needed for the metaverse by crua9

How do you secure a network against a 51% attack without making the resource requirements to run the network enormous, too large for a single party or coalition of parties to maintain?

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theDropout t1_j0wgdnm wrote

I think Avalanches probabilistic consensus and XRP’s consensus has some novel answers to this question.

(They’re not 100% of the way there but they point at the solution, I think Flare Networks has adopted an interesting solution that layers these with the EVM)

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Veneck t1_j0ze8kd wrote

It's a question to which the answer will be found in game theory and adjacent realms, but this really only matters in particular environments

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