Davide on Nostr: If only a minority of the miners follow the old chain, the risk of 51% attack becomes ...
If only a minority of the miners follow the old chain, the risk of 51% attack becomes real moreover the hashing power could move from one to another, destabilizing the block time in a very relevant way. I think that this has in fact happened to the Bitcoin forks that lost the majority of the market value.
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