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Theres no need to start at a huge hash rate. You can fork and then reset/reduce the difficulty, or adjust the difficulty in the way BCH does. You can also use P
by yrral 6y ago
Theres no need to start at a huge hash rate.
You can fork and then reset/reduce the difficulty, or adjust the difficulty in the way BCH does. You can also use POW algorithms that can be done only on commodity hardware like GPUs or CPUs so that the community can do it in a more distributed way.
- AffableSpatula 6y agoIf the difficulty is low then re-attacking the forked chain is inexpensive so you have exactly the same problem. Additionally, reducing the hashrate reduces the settlement assurances increasing the number of confirmations required to be sure your transaction is finalised.