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Re:On the growing risk of the 51% attack against BCash by notsrg on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:14PM (#15992286)
Increasing the blocksize increases centralization at a time where miners have unprecedented power.
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Re:On the growing risk of the 51% attack against BCash by JepZ on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:20PM (#15992321)
How does it increase centralization and why have miners more power than 5 years ago? (Just because the value increased? Do they have more influence to the community?)

Could you pleace elaborate on that?

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Re:On the growing risk of the 51% attack against BCash by exit on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:26PM (#15992350)
it increases centralisation because large blocks do not propagate as easily, and therefore encourage mining co-location
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