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"Vendors accepting cryptocurrency can always choose their own level of risk by deciding how many blocks to wait before accepting a transaction. This allows them to "wait out" temporary attacks."

And introduces even more inefficiencies into the entire system as now we have to spend that time waiting for transactions to clear



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