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theDropout t1_j0w18a6 wrote

Reply to comment by turnip_burrito in Everything an average person should know about Web 3 at this time, and how this will be needed for the metaverse by crua9

Current paradigms will be replaced by low-cost, low-energy, etc solutions. This is more about the underlying concept of a distributed database and how it affects other systems.

The same way that current AI is basically an expensive toy in its current form, but the concept of automated intelligence has massive consequences as it scales.

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turnip_burrito t1_j0wg2q2 wrote

How do you secure a network against a 51% attack without making the resource requirements to run the network enormous, too large for a single party or coalition of parties to maintain?

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theDropout t1_j0wgdnm wrote

I think Avalanches probabilistic consensus and XRP’s consensus has some novel answers to this question.

(They’re not 100% of the way there but they point at the solution, I think Flare Networks has adopted an interesting solution that layers these with the EVM)

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Veneck t1_j0ze8kd wrote

It's a question to which the answer will be found in game theory and adjacent realms, but this really only matters in particular environments

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