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very little, once you prove that an attack of those characteristics is feasible, the entire house of cards where the “value” of those coins is stored, would col
by joking 5y ago
very little, once you prove that an attack of those characteristics is feasible, the entire house of cards where the “value” of those coins is stored, would collapse, and you would gain nothing from it.
- KebabLove 5y agoYou are wrong. ETC got 51% attacked 3 times in a month, with no real effect on the price.
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- jpalomaki 5y agoMalicious actor might be able to make a profit by shorting related stocks and playing with cryptocurrency derivatives.
- usrusr 5y agoBasically this. I think the more interesting question is how it might be possible to extract value from dominating log writes in more subtle ways. If stock market HFT can be a entire industry, what might be possible by tipping the scales of transaction latency?