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				    One could argue, though, that once those servers are over-congested, 
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				    their bandwidth per circuit drops, which would in turn lower their 
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				    reputation in the future. A question is whether this would overall 
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				-   stablize. 
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				+   stabilize. 
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				    Another possible way is to keep a cap on reputation. In this way, a 
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				    fraction of servers would have the same high reputation, thus balancing 
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				    gets preferred treatment at each node. A node "spends" its value, which 
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				    it earned a priori by providing service, to the next node by sending 
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				    and receiving bytes. Once a node has overspent its values, the circuit 
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				-   cannot stay as premium. It can either breaks or converts into a normal 
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				+   cannot stay as premium. It either breaks or converts into a normal 
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				    circuit. Each node also reserves a small portion of bandwidth for 
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				    normal circuits to prevent starvation. 
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