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I don't think I really understood what you meant by this... Nor did I really follow your overall point here, if I'm to be honest...
> means that the network is not properly decentralized
ummmm..... this just sounds like a convenient excuse in case of failure.
- "Somebody did a 51% attack!" - "Oh, well it's not the system's fault, it just means that the implementation was bad"
Actually 51% attacks are a theoretical feature of these systems, before you even get to the implementation details.
I don't think I really understood what you meant by this... Nor did I really follow your overall point here, if I'm to be honest...
> means that the network is not properly decentralized
ummmm..... this just sounds like a convenient excuse in case of failure.
- "Somebody did a 51% attack!" - "Oh, well it's not the system's fault, it just means that the implementation was bad"
Actually 51% attacks are a theoretical feature of these systems, before you even get to the implementation details.