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Re: Why is cryptoanarchy irreversible?
In <[email protected]>, on 11/08/96 at 02:46 PM,
Matts Kallioniemi <[email protected]> said:
>At 17:12 1996-11-07 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>>Simple analogy: Suppose you put two people into a room with a deck of
>>playing cards and a table, instructing "Person A" to build a house-of-cards,
>>and telling "Person B" to stop him from achieving his goal. Who do you
>>think will win? Obviously, the latter will win: It's vastly easier to
>>knock such a structure down than to build it in the first place, and all
>>"Person B" has to do is occasionally take a whack at the structure.
>What if Person A is better armed? Could that change the outcome?
Well this takes you into the field of Game Theory which many books & papers have been writen on. :)
A close look at the cold war, deteriants, arm races, SALT treaties, ...ect. should give you some real world examples of how such mechanisims work.
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