On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 09:36 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > meanwhile, a random thought: how hard would it be to make and > support an Agoran cryptocurrency?
No cryptocurrency I know of can continue to act as a currency if someone has 50% or more of the mining power. Agora has a sufficiently small userbase that that would be a trivial condition to achieve (with modern VPSes, you can rent out a very powerful computer cluster for a very short time for a pretty reasonable cost, and have well over 50% for whatever scam you're trying to pull; defending against this would require other people to be using similarly powerful clusters /continuously/, which would be financially unsustainable). -- ais523
