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How Does PoW Prevent Sybil Attacks?

A Sybil attack is where an attacker creates many false identities to gain disproportionate influence. PoW prevents this by requiring a significant computational and energy cost for each 'identity' (miner) to participate in block creation.

The economic barrier to entry makes creating numerous fake mining identities prohibitively expensive.

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