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Only by as much as the miners themselves spend. And it's a running cost, you have to spend it every day, while an attacker would spend it only during their atta
by tveita 11y ago
Only by as much as the miners themselves spend. And it's a running cost, you have to spend it every day, while an attacker would spend it only during their attack.
The only way to make a 51% attack impractically expensive is to make the network impractically expensive to run.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoThat would only make sense if you could somehow rent 51% of the hashrate, which isn't remotely true.
- gritzko 11y agoAnother option is to hack 51% of the hashrate. The third one is to own it from the very beginning.