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Re:51% Attack Bleeds More Than $5M from Ethereum Classic by duskwuff on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:16PM (#24088639)
> 4000 blocks is also, I think, extremely deep into the chain. As I recall, bitcoin exchanges default to like 6 blocks before confirming?

This attack was against Ethereum Classic, which has a block time of 13 seconds. 4000 blocks ≈ 14 hours.

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