This phenomenon of "mysterious Bitcoin miner smashing your shitcoin" was pretty common in the early days, especially around the time namecoin merged mining came

This phenomenon of "mysterious Bitcoin miner smashing your shitcoin" was pretty common in the early days, especially around the time namecoin merged mining came into play. Any theoretical attack that might be possible on Bitcoin would be attempted elsewhere if you didn't have the hashpower to carry it out on mainnet. Origin of the term shitcoin would most likely be unable to defend the 51% attack Good write-up op