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		runeks on Aug 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plasma: Scalable Autonomous Smart Contracts What’s the effect of a single shard breaking down? How many shards need to break down before it causes a problem?

tscs37 on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

Well the breakdown of a share has differing effects depending on the consensus rules, same for the entire network. I can't answer that unless you specify which consensus we are talking about.

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