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Re:Algorand Consensus Protocol by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @07:30AM (#24846725)
I saw Jing Chen present in SF, and address this question.

It is very difficult to buy votes on the network because you don't know who the next voter will be.

If I understand correctly, the voter is chosen based on pseudo-random hash prefix?

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Re:Algorand Consensus Protocol by josh2600 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:29PM (#24955343)
This is just a monetary incentive problem. It doesn't matter if the voters are random if the reward for fraud is high enough to incentivize bad behavior.
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