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157 - Will Solana Make It with Anatoly Yakovenko
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The Economic Cost of Going Backwards in Blocks
The security of the network is based on this idea that if I run my full node, I can process all the valid state transitions and I know the exact state. The economic cost of how much it costs to go backwards in blocks is economic security. Once everyone that's finalized, binance, circle, all the full nodes, finalized something, they're going to reject any other fork that's proposed. They don't have this like consensus hook that says, oh, if somebody proposes a heavier majority signature, we're going to throw away our state and blow away all the money that was made.
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