Re:China’s Bitmain dominates Bitcoin mining, wants to cash i...
by CyberDildonics on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:40PM
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Which means that they can't do a 51% attack, which was what the comment above me was implying.
They can't generate infinite bitcoin units anyway but if they controlled 70% of the mining power they could conceivably execute double spends, although even this would be unlikely.
In any event the post above mine asked a yes or no question and the answer is no.
The article implies that providing mining cpus is much more of a problem than it is since they don't actually control that much mining hash power.
They can't generate infinite bitcoin units anyway but if they controlled 70% of the mining power they could conceivably execute double spends, although even this would be unlikely.
In any event the post above mine asked a yes or no question and the answer is no.
The article implies that providing mining cpus is much more of a problem than it is since they don't actually control that much mining hash power.