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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Nothing-at-Stake & Long Range Attack on Proof-of-Stake (Consensus Research)
by
r0ach
on 14/01/2015, 19:52:55 UTC

4. History attack - attacker can buy whale's private key for $5 and build alternative story. Solved with some checkpoints now, located behind max rollback possible, so the solution is not so scary in terms of centralization etc.

HOW is that solved???  Centralized checkpoints = not decentralized currency.