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Comment author: jaekwon 03 January 2015 01:13:37AM 0 points [-]

It's solved for everyone who is always periodically syncing.

Also, if you're comfortable with Bitcoin's security model, then for Tendermint you only need to get a trusted block hash (after a long period of being offline) if and only if you detect a fork in the block-chain. Most of the time there won't be.