Hunter Gebron
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Hi Eckart, thanks for the response!

This would only be the case if the attacker openly hijacks the entire TCR. If it’s a more subtle attack to get a specific entry listed or upvoted, the TCR would not immediately lose its value.

You are correct. I was assuming the attacker was openly hijacking the entire TCR.

The attacker has a much easier game communicating the incentive (unidirectional one to many), where an honest (minority) defender would have to motivate several others to join forces and actually communicate their commitment.

I am not sure the assumption, “the attacker has a much easier game communicating the incentive (unidirectional one to many)” is true. Especially if theTCR has a large community that congregates in many different places at different times e.g. Telegram, Slack, Discord, WeChat, Reddit, Github, Medium, Twitter etc. and is made up of individuals that speak different languages. You may be overestimating the attackers ability to broadcast to the entire TCR community in one fell swoop, and you may be underestimating how easy it is for a few honest minority defenders to communicate.

However, I could imagine a system in which anyone could challenge the outcome and enforce a second voting round with a much large number of voters — thereby rendering the attack very expensive.

Yes, this is the way adChain works. Any listing can be re-applied at any time even if it was already challenged and voted out.

Hunter Gebron

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