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by mpeg 3095 days ago
Then you have to verify, and as he says, you end up duplicating the work.
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duplicating is very optimistic. Over a distributed network, to achieve trust, it will have to be (n) where n is the average (over all time) number of agents that care about the validity of the chain. Then don't forget to multiply by k^2 where k is the expected blockchain chain length over all time. As an approximation...