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It depends. Roughly speaking the revenue is

(Largest transaction you can cash out at exchanges) * (1 - (The decrease in value of the currency you attacked)) + (Block rewards earned).

Basically you get someone to give you cash in return for your cryptoX and then the attack lets you undo the transaction that gave them the cryptoX (but you still have the cash you got). The second term handles the fact that the attack may have cause the value of cryptoX to decrease which hurts you since you still hold the cryptoX you double spent.

This is an academic paper that looks into the details more closely https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/Econom...




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