5/ To hand-wave this weakness away (or misleadingly used the term “weak”) is like saying a foundation of a house has a small crack, but it’s no big deal. When it fact it can grow into a huge liability over the long term.
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16/ So anything that has asymmetric attack/defense ratio has to be relative. There’s always a way to go around the asymmetry.
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17/ PoW security, otoh, is *absolute*. It doesn't matter which frame of reference you come from, the cost of attack is the same. PoW ledger immutability is objective, it doesn’t care who you are.
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18/ Ledger immutability that relies on relative security will always be weaker than one that relies on absolute security.
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19/ EDIT (13): it is only *secure* from the point of view of the owner of the private key
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Exactly. Cost/risk analysis must always include exogenous factors.
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