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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by aeturnum on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:01PM (#31687498)
I think checksums can be used to verify that particular messages are the same, but ultimately I think there just aren't that many protocols for ensuring that every provider has every message. Some messages could get dropped and the solution is that providers will just check again - there's no protocol level guard against it.

Absolute integrity is a lot less important in systems which assume that inexpensive manual overrides will be possible - because you save a ton by simply deciding to build a system that 'only' works 99.9% of the time and intervening in 0.1% of cases. Obviously blockchains don't work 100% of the time but that's the premise for their increased costs.

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