Under the 2018 validation pool design, the cost of corrupting the system to reach fifty one percent control is at minimum twice the total reputation value of the system.
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This is the fundamental security bound: corrupting the system costs at minimum 2× the total reputation value.34
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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026), II.C. Security Properties: Attack Resistance Mathematics, p. 15 https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998 · source PDF
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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998
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attacker acquires reputation through repeated fee payments
attacker always wins the validation pool, the worst case
supportskaal:claim:3128900-019 The protocol architecture together with its incentive structure is what produces enhanced 51 percent attack re...
supportskaal:claim:3125822-016 A 51 percent collusion that votes against common sense is visible in an open system, which erodes trust, reduc...
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