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by Muanh 3142 days ago
You have to do PoW when submitting a transaction. So DDOSing will not be trivial.
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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.