Our Onions are a coin, and the coins are prone to counterfeiting, especially in a digital environment where practically everything is easily replicable, modifiable and crakeable.
That being the case, we ask ourselves, since being a digital currency and all that it entails, it’s possible to falsify our DeepOnion with everything said above?
The quick and simple answer is: No, you can't but what is the reason why you can't?
All this leads to technology based on Tor and those things, but the main factor that makes this possible is a something called Blockchain.
What Is Blockchain?
The Blockchain is a kind of digital ledger where each transaction either transfer, purchase, etc. it is registered in the database permanently, unalterably and chronologically to then be encrypted and grouped in a linear way using complex mathematical algorithms, granting a unique digital signature to each block.
A great advantage is that the Blockchain is not stored in one place or point, the Blockchain is distributed in hundreds or thousands of computers around the world than function as nodes in the network, where each any copy of the Blockchain is identical and updatable in real time so its impossible to commit fraud.
Anyone around the world can consult a transfer in this huge digital ledger, for example the amount and the addresses used in a transaction, but we can’t know the identities of the users or where their destination is.
Therefore, if a person or an institution wanted to alter or destroy the Blockchain, they will have to access each computer in the global network and simultaneously destroy the local copy of it. Which is impossible.
In short, if by chance someone wanted to use duplicate onions or that they don’t belong to him, the verifications within the Blockchain will indicate it, for this reason they can’t be falsified the DeepOnion and its use will be impossible.