A Sybil Attack is a common form of attack on a blockchain network. Sybil Attacks, a familiar threat for peer-to-peer networks, are attacks in which a malicious entity takes over control of a network by creating a large number of mirroring pseudonymous entities, thus enabling the attacker to seize control of voting or consensus mechanisms.
One of the methods of establishing Sybil-resistance within a network is to set an economic cost as a barrier to entry to the network. This dissuades potential attackers from launching a Sybil Attack by making the cost of creating those mirror entities too high for the attack to be economically feasible.
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