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by drcode 2728 days ago
The main issue with fishermen is that they can't help much with data availability issues, because an attacker can just make the data available later during the arbitration process, which leads to a vector for DOS attacks against the arbitration system.
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So the data availability problem renders the fisherman solution useless in a pragmatic sense?
Has sharding just recreated the double-spend problem by shattering the consensus mechanism that solved it into 100 pieces?

Are we now free-floating, hoping to find a new solution to the double-spend problem on a fragmented system?