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It seems like they would have much better and more effective targets. They could have attacked bitcoin or crypto coin mining pools and just used the hashing pow
by piracy1 8y ago
It seems like they would have much better and more effective targets. They could have attacked bitcoin or crypto coin mining pools and just used the hashing power. It would have worked almost instantly and they wouldn't have to deal with SSL/TLS. Say a pool mines 20% of the blocks. After 2 hours they will have mined 2 blocks of 12.5 btc so 25 btc and $220K
(although they would likly not get all the hashing power because not everyone is taking that route.)
- foepys 8y agoHow could redirecting traffic of a Bitcoin mining pool make an attacker money? The transaction to which the block rewards goes is part of the block hash and thus still under full control of the miner that has the matching private key.