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Re:PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub by codexon on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:39PM (#21551046)
As far as I can tell, GHOST is only used to mitigate high hash power loss when confirmation times are lowered to 15 seconds.

Orphaned blocks are very rare in Bitcoin.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/orphaned-blocks?offset=0

Even if you somehow saved all this wasted hash power, you would only maybe increase hash power by less than 1%!!!

Read my comment here for more details.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21550997

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Re:PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub by DennisP on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:48PM (#21555677)
Sounds like we vehemently agree. Orphaned blocks are indeed rare in Bitcoin, because they have ten-minute block times. GHOST only helps when block times are so short that you get lots of orphaned blocks.

And that's how Ethereum gets away with 15-second blocks.

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Re:PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub by codexon on Sunday November 17, 2019 @05:25PM (#21560429)
But you haven't proven that 1 ETH 15 second block is equal or even in the same ballpark in security to a 10 minute BTC block.
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