# kaal:claim:6192998-010

**Claim.** The two times corruption cost bound of the 2018 framework is conditional, not general: subsequent analysis shows it holds only under specific conditions that may not obtain in practice.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> However, subsequent analysis reveals this bound applies only under specific conditions that may not hold in practice. This is a limitation we address in Section IV.F.

**From.** 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, page 15

**Cite as.** 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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**Failure mode.** conditional-security-bound  (family: research-design-limitation)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** attack-resistance, corruption-cost, security-bound, framework-limitations

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