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 "text": "Delay Towers to Bootstrap Blockchains should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that A malicious party using Sybil accounts cannot be prevented from cloning the structure of a successful proof of stake blockchain at far lower cost than cloning a proof of work chain, leaving a new user unable to distinguish the truly decentralized chain from a clone that has manufactured even more tokens. The authors answer that this is resolved off chain, by a trusted user interface, as with cloned web pages. The current metadata indicates a plausible connection through Sybil resistance, but the defensible response is a qualification until the source text confirms agreement, scope, methods, and limitations.",
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  "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Secure Proof of Stake Protocol (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125827",
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