SPoS prevents the long range attack without token locking, because a false chain cannot be manufactured with more total validation than the real chain: votes are transactions moving validators' sem tokens under their public keys, so upvotes cannot be forged from existing tokens.
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SPoS naturally prevents this attack without such locking, since a false chain cannot be manufactured with more total validation than the real chain.
restated_bykaal:claim:5225296-013 Long-range attacks, in which adversaries rewrite history using old keys, are mitigated in SPoS by requiring ve...
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