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Re:Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies by Sir_Substance on Monday May 28, 2018 @12:46PM (#17173374)
>This is a totally misleading calculation for the largest currencies.

That's not the only way it's misleading. Peercoin is listed as 8,559% available on nicehash, but peercoin is a proof of stake coin. It doesn't use hashpower to secure it's transactions, so it's not vulnerable to a 51% hash power attack (although it is vulnerable to other kinds of 51% attack).

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Re:Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies by thisisit on Monday May 28, 2018 @01:06PM (#17173482)
> Peercoin

As per wiki, it uses hybrid of PoW and PoS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peercoin

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Re:Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies by Passthepeas on Monday May 28, 2018 @12:49PM (#17173386)
yeah Im confused as to why a proof of stake currency is even in the list
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Re:Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies by xur17 on Monday May 28, 2018 @12:57PM (#17173435)
I am using hashing rates from minethecoin [0] - if any are inaccurate, please let me know, and I will update them.

edit: I've removed Peercoin since it is a PoW + PoS coin as the GP points out, so these numbers are inaccurate.

[0] https://minethecoin.com/

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