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Re:It’s not still the early days of blockchain by CRConrad on Monday January 17, 2022 @05:38PM (#29972495)
> Seems like those people will have to continually pay for tokens that will be worthless as the network keeps forking as other non coerced reporters do not.

What if it's a majority that is coerced (or bribed, frightened, etc) into lying? Then it's the truth that will be left behind as "reality" forks in favour of the usurper, isn't it?

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Re:It’s not still the early days of blockchain by cinquemb on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:22AM (#30147171)
If the entire chain state was only this decision and nothing else in the future and that majority could be coerced without major contention (which is not really possible off chain either) then that might work, but the problem is that all the other decisions that need to be made by the validators will require those people to be coerced to vote accurately in the present and in the future on the forked chain states.
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