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RE: Tokenika's take on sustainable EOS arbitration
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Another thing worth mentioning is the volume of arbitrated transactions at hand — a cut-off point should exist, below which no case can be filed. This addresses a vector of attack on the network, where arbitration cases are purposefully too numerous to be handled by anyone. Think arbitration DDOS.
This only works if the community is more or less equal. But it isn't. If we go to Africa and put EOS processes into the hands of informal workers they'll be facing cases of say $10. To them this will mean 5 days work.
Whereas if we look at the whales, they will happily DDOS the forum with cases above the threshold ... just to make sure it can't handle their $1mm case.
Life ain't so simple as the numbers!
We see a whale DDOS very unlikely, as large stakeholders have the most to lose. ECAF in our view is a special unit that should only interfere when network's health is at stake, or both sides of the dispute can agree and afford its service.
Please note that qualifying all cases of alleged theft as worth being considered, you effectively put the justice system entirely in the hands of private organisations like ECAF, as BPs won't be able to review them properly.