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Re:Cost of a 51% attack for different cryptocurrencies? by labawi on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:37PM (#22163516)
> You can simply intercept the communication here and have all the miners on a pool actually mine for your replacement pool, and nobody will ever catch on until its far too late.

Depending on what you consider fat too late, doesn't the pool verify the solutions, and provide OOB statistics, where people would notice over time that they get 0 credits?

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Re:Cost of a 51% attack for different cryptocurrencies? by RL_Quine on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:58PM (#22163710)
Yes. The response time to that will be much less than the time to perform an attack with that hash rate though. We’ve seen people mine for literally 4 months on a broken pool that produced no income before they noticed.
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