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> so you would need to borrow around 5 billion USD in order to make this attack work. If you were about to find someone to sell you $5B in ETH at spot price. I
by hanniabu 5y ago
> so you would need to borrow around 5 billion USD in order to make this attack work.
If you were about to find someone to sell you $5B in ETH at spot price. In reality you would need much more than this.
- fogof 5y agoIndeed, this is true. I was also assuming you would be buying the ETH from other stakers (if not, you would need $8B in ETH at spot price) and that you as an attacker have the ability to make the network desynchronous (if not, you would actually need 1/2 the total stake rather than 1/3). These are just generous assumptions that give us a lower bound on how much money it would actually take to attack the network.