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I doubt it would work in practice. If an actor repeatedly used ASICs to run a 51% attack, it wouldn’t take long for the community to switch hashing algorithm an

I doubt it would work in practice. If an actor repeatedly used ASICs to run a 51% attack, it wouldn’t take long for the community to switch hashing algorithm and render all that hardware useless.

pishpash 4y ago
How is "the community" going to switch when "the community" includes the 51%?
- pharmakom 4y ago
  Everyone in the community who isn’t the 51% attacker would want to switch because a crypto that is vulnerable in this way has little value.