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genesis.tex: qualify Praos design claim
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nfrisby committed Dec 3, 2020
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The Praos chain selection rule (choose the longest chain) was explicitly
designed for a context in which all nodes in the network are present from the
very beginning and are always online. The Praos security analysis
very beginning or somehow had one of the current chains when it joined and are always online. The Praos security analysis
\cite{cryptoeprint:2017:573} essentially shows that when the honest nodes in the
system are all following this protocol, they will end up with a common prefix,
with disagreement possible only about the most recent $k$ blocks. This means that
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