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It would be in B and C's best interests to hash together to avoid A's attack. A well designed cryptocurrency takes these game theory scenarios into accounts and
by SirensOfTitan 10y ago
It would be in B and C's best interests to hash together to avoid A's attack. A well designed cryptocurrency takes these game theory scenarios into accounts and properly incentivizes mining wherein it should be more profitable for miners to accurately represent transaction history over destabilization.
A in your scenario would likely be malicious to the network would have to be a state actor looking to kill the network. Luckily, in a sufficiently large network even governments are bound by CPU/GPU supply. It gets even harder for this kind of state maliciousness to take place in tech like ethereum: whose PoW function is both CPU and memory bound (I.e. You cannot use custom ASICs)
I casually enjoy cryptocurrency, so anyone who knows better please correct me if you find me incorrect.