I think this is an incredibly valid critique, but it misses what makes Pearl so interesting. Pearl would not be a good asymmetric opportunity if it was built on SHA512 or some other useless algorithm. We all know we don't need another Bitcoin What makes Pearl asymmetric is the differences between it and Bitcoin. Bitcoin Maxis decided long ago that picking a useful algorithm opened up attack vectors on Bitcoin, but I don't really know if we ever actually tested that assumption as seriously as Peal is now Yes, there were projects that were doing merge mining back in the day, but merge mining is very different, I believe, compared to the duplex mining or two-for-one work that Pearl does. From what I can tell, we're running a new and interesting experiment I think it's actually totally reasonable if your base case is that Pearl goes to zero. But on the off chance that it doesn't, the opportunity is so massive that you kind of need to imagine, instead of "How might this thing fail?", "How might this thing succeed?" For the specific critique that Sami is making here, I think the game theory is if you could just 51% attack it and print money, everybody would race to do it. Enough compute would come online that you saturate the available GPUs, which is Pearl's win condition anyway. I think they want people racing to 51% attack them. That's what gets it so embedded into the ecosystem and maybe part of why hash is going so exponential

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This explains Zcash, Pearl, etc.