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nickpsecurity on May 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocur...

I'd offer to buy the companies or groups controlling most of the mining power. Even paying off individual executives to cut deals to lower the price. The resulting buy would probably be way, way, way less than $100 billion for Bitcoin. Hell, it might be less than a billion.

quickthrower2 on May 29, 2018 [–]

Depends if you can make more from the attack than the mining co. will lose from being out of operation (plus the BTC price crash that will follow).

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