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The 51% Attack for the Fediverse

by lloyds_barclays on 1/1/24, 2:02 PM with 1 comments

  • by PaulHoule on 1/1/24, 2:17 PM

    I’m not so sure where you get the 50% threshold in this case because, unlike Bitcoin or electoral democracy there is no voting. 1% of network users could cause a lot of trouble for everyone else or conversely, 1% of users can defederate and do their own thing.