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In a distributed system, which cannot achieve constant perfect communication between nodes, it is never possible to determine with certainty that a block producer was censoring particular transactions rather than simply being unaware of them.

In a distributed system--which cannot achieve constant perfect communication between nodes--we can never certainly determine that a block producer was censoring certain transactions, instead of simply not being aware of them.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Secure Proof of Stake Protocol (2018), 2.2 Soft attacks, p. 10
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Secure Proof of Stake Protocol (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125827

• imperfect communication between nodes
• block producers with discretion over transaction inclusion

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