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Okay so ripple achieves consensus through network effects: biggest room wins. So far so good.

Now Mallory deploys ripple clients, which behave like ordinary ripple clients, but are under her control. After a while, 51% of the biggest consensus room are straw men for Mallory. She "flips the switch" introduces a transaction that places the entire network's balances into her accounts.

How does ripple prevent this?



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