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> And unlike PoW, if you fail your "attack money" gets nuked. To be fair, in PoW your "attack energy" (and thus money) gets nuked too.

• zaarn 7y ago
  Your spent attack energy is nuked. But you still have the miners and can run another attack at reduced cost (since you don't have to buy them anymore). If your money is nuked, you don't get to try again at reduced cost but at increased cost.
  • StavrosK 7y ago
    That's not the cost of the attack, though, any more than buying a house to put the miners in is. The cost of the attack is miner time + power (ie what you paid to rent the miners, more or less).
    • zaarn 7y ago
      Even then, the initial cost of the miners will be a significant part of the attack's cost the first time. Any subsequent attack will then be cheaper.