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If anyone can be a miner, then malware can be used to do a 51% attack. Something like that happened with Monero recently [1]. [1] https://www.investopedia.com/
by SnowProblem 9y ago
If anyone can be a miner, then malware can be used to do a 51% attack. Something like that happened with Monero recently [1].
[1] https://www.investopedia.com/news/sites-are-using-your-browser-mine-crypto-it-could-be-good-thing/ https://www.investopedia.com/news/sites-are-using-your-brows...
- wmf 9y agoBitcoin is not vulnerable to botnets because it effectively requires ASICs.
- SnowProblem 9y agoYep. Just pointing this out because some in BTC want to change the PoW to make mining more decentralized.
- Cypher 9y agoDid you know just 5 Nano nodes control over 51% of the network? https://www.nanode.co/representatives https://www.nanode.co/representatives