“So if you think you have designed a permissionless…system that is cleverly secured based on rationality assumptions, you haven’t. You have merely obfuscated the rational attacker’s motive and opportunity to profit outside your system from breaking your rationality assumptions.” <a href="https://twitter.com/brynosaurus/status/1311405398847610888">https://twitter.com/brynosaurus/status/1311405398847610888</a>

Christopher Allen

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“So if you think you have designed a permissionless…system that is cleverly secured based on rationality assumptions, you haven’t. You have merely obfuscated the rational attacker’s motive and opportunity to profit outside your system from breaking your rationality assumptions.” https://twitter.com/brynosaurus/status/1311405398847610888

9/30/2020, 2:16:49 PM

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Christopher Allen

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…“The only practical way to eliminate this threat appears to be either to close the system…(identity & enforcement)…or else secure the system against arbitrary Byzantine behavior, thereby rendering rationality assumptions redundant and useless for security.”

9/30/2020, 2:19:52 PM

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