• ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    As I understand, it’s normally append-only. But, with some implementations, if a malicious entity controls most of the block production, they can undo recent transactions at will.

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      15 hours ago

      Some resort to majority vote, in the case of disagreements. Theoretically, if someone owned/controlled over 50% of the database, they could rewrite it, and have their version seen as true.

      For the few valid uses of it, that shouldn’t be a problem. It will also be reasonably detectable beforehand.