> This only works if you can trust the people doing the counts ... These kind of security and sharing situations seems to be open questions in the field. Trust

> This only works if you can trust the people doing the counts ... These kind of security and sharing situations seems to be open questions in the field. Trust in this sense can be safely assumed in every network that isn't open to arbitrary participants. That trust is guaranteed at lower levels in the stack, for example via TLS, it's definitely not the responsibility of the data/CRDT layer.