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by cryptodogemoon 3144 days ago
Their claim of 0 fees will not last. It means DDOSing will be trivial, and their network will be crippled.
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You have to do PoW when submitting a transaction. So DDOSing will not be trivial.
But the PoW is for small IOT devices right? Or at any case it is for regular users, and does not take them minutes to compute. I cannot see how that is resistant to an adversary with dedicated hardware.
> You have to do PoW when submitting a transaction.

Then there is a price; it's just measured in watt-hours of energy spent instead of denominated in cryptocurrency.