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Can't you do worse things if you have >50% hash power? It seems like DoS is pretty mild all things considered.
by safog 6y ago
Can't you do worse things if you have >50% hash power? It seems like DoS is pretty mild all things considered.
- esotericn 6y agoIt depends how rationally the market responds, I guess. A reorg attack and a DoS are equivalent in my mind - anyone who's capable of pulling off a lengthy DoS is also capable of performing a reorg attack, whether they actually do or not is kind of irrelevant.
- AffableSpatula 6y agothere is a type of reorg attack I proposed that's now been dubbed a "purge attack", that has the effect of destabalising the network by creating a window for all affected users to double spend their previously "finalised" transactions: https://medium.com/deribitofficial/destabilizing-bitcoin-consensus-with-purge-attacks-68018bf3b927 https://medium.com/deribitofficial/destabilizing-bitcoin-con...