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Why is this a flaw? Edit: it seems like it makes it more robust, basing ur interest in a fork not in your involvment in it but in its merit (e.g. you are incen
by totony 7y ago
Why is this a flaw?
Edit: it seems like it makes it more robust, basing ur interest in a fork not in your involvment in it but in its merit (e.g. you are incentivized to support them all)
- rocqua 7y agoNothing to prevent you from staking honestly on one chain, and dishonestly on a chain that undoes some of the spends on the other chain. Hence people can band together to try and create forks without losing any money if the fork fails. Whereas with PoW, any effort spend on a fork is effort that did not to towards mining on the main chain.
- totony 7y agoBut you'd lose money on the second chain? Assuming >50% are honest. If <50% are honest the second chain is probably not worth anything anyway
- Zamicol 7y agoNothing at stake is never truly nothing at stake, but I've always considered "nothing at stake" not really a problem that's unfixable.