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Would a DOS attack enable someone to do a double spend by taking honest nodes offline?
by empath75 8y ago
Would a DOS attack enable someone to do a double spend by taking honest nodes offline?
- imglorp 8y agoYeah I think that's the problem: an attacker can gain a majority of dishonest nodes.
- nullc 8y agoThat isn't the case here. (also, in Bitcoin "majority of nodes" doesn't do much to aid attacks)
- eridius 8y agoWhy not? If you have a sizeable percentage of the mining power, and you can DDoS enough other miners to leave you with 51% of the mining power, doesn't that allow you to double-spend? Edit: After reading other comments, I take it the answer to "why not?" is "because this isn't actually a DDoS".
- nullc 8y agoAlso because if it were, what you'd have to DDOS is hashpower not nodes-- and lots (hopefully most) hashpower is not directly inbound reachable: it connects outward, and only gets inbound connections via backup nodes at other locations. This makes it harder to DOS attack since you don't know where it is.