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Re:How I became Leonardo da Vinci on the Blockchain by a1369209993 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:15PM (#17298076)
> If B were to pay X a bribe of amount N, [...] B could also directly enforce the statement with amount N

Okay, better question: how do you deal with the (pathologic, and therefore approximately guarranteed to come up) situation where A's life savings are ten dollars and a horse, B has 100 million dollars, and B claims (with amount ≥ 11$) that B owns A's horse.

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Re:How I became Leonardo da Vinci on the Blockchain by hobofan on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:40PM (#17298305)
As long as the "100 million dollars" don't make up more than 50% of the tokens in the network, the incentives are supposed to play out in a way that all the other participants of the network contest the wrong statement made by B, and thus B isn't able to introduce information that is deemed wrong. So in general the situation should be preventable. There are some specific versions of that edge case that come to my mind that where that situation could indeed be unresolvable but in those cases that should be detectable and displayable to the users of the system.

As I said in my previous comment, there are some rationality requirements regarding some of the token amount.

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