> What "window of opportunity"? The window of opportunity to use your old keys (with old coins) to create a malicious chain. > If you have the ability to mint

> What "window of opportunity"? The window of opportunity to use your old keys (with old coins) to create a malicious chain. > If you have the ability to mint blocks, you can use include signed transactions from the real chain to unstake and build majority on nodes you control. If the attacker is building their own chain, no one else will be building on top of it. Anyone will see that the chain has very few coins actively minting and will be immediately suspect, even if they're eclipsed. If they're not eclipsed, they'll go with the honest chain, which would be clearly longer unless this was a 51% attack situation. >I would discourage you from responding on this topic If you're going to be rude, I'm just going to ignore you. Its pretty insulting to tell me that. I've written two different consensus protocols, and analysed the security properties of many more. I very much doubt you've put anywhere near as much work into understanding the attacks and solutions around consensus protocols. So please don't be pompous.