Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
by throwaway415415 on Monday February 18, 2019 @05:20PM
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Yes people can duck with a network by cutting cables. This works with all internet protocols.
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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
by thesausageking on Monday February 18, 2019 @05:57PM
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If 99% of Bitcoin's hashrate gets taken off the internet, it keeps going without any problem. That's the beauty of a decentralized cryptocurrency. There's no central node and it's supremely fault tolerant.
Algorand has a lot of interesting technology and may have some use cases. But it's more like a distributed database / voting system than a true cryptocurrency.
Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
by throwaway415415 on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:32PM
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That is not true. If network partitions happen in bitcoin you are utterly ducked. The system will fork and good luck to recover from that with all the double spendings.