# kaal:claim:3125822-019

**Claim.** In the absolute worst case, with no safeguards at all, the price of corrupting the platform from within is a minimum of twice the total historical fees added to the system, and instituting any obvious protection raises that price steeply.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- worst case assumes any fee is accepted automatically and resolved instantly
- assumes no other users are adding fees

**Source quote.**

> in the absolute worst- case scenario, the price to corrupt the system from within is a minimum of twice the total historical fees added to the system. If any obvious protections are instituted, the price to corrupt grows steeply.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, *Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A* (2018), 4.1.4 Reputation calculation, page 15

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

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**Topics.** consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** attack-cost, fifty-one-percent-attack, formal-model, security

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125827-037

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