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Title: Congratulations on a successful 51% attack today everyone! Post by: WiW on March 12, 2013, 08:39:31 PM There was a fork but more than 50% of the hashing power put their work behind the shorter chain, even though merchants may (and have?) trusted the longer proof of work chain.
Technically, there was no malicious intent, and I'm sure nobody planned this in advance with a double spend in mind... I believe all the miners deserve a big congratulations! Title: Re: Congratulations on a successful 51% attack today everyone! Post by: ItsDom on March 12, 2013, 08:42:24 PM I'm confused.... are you being sarcastic... or?
As you said, there's no malicious activity, so there's no 51% "attack" The community came together to cover a bug. Title: Re: Congratulations on a successful 51% attack today everyone! Post by: Gabi on March 12, 2013, 08:43:54 PM Based on what you said, WiW, there is a 51% attack everytime a block is orphaned :D so dozens of time per month! lol
Title: Re: Congratulations on a successful 51% attack today everyone! Post by: mccorvic on March 12, 2013, 08:47:06 PM Based on what you said, WiW, there is a 51% attack everytime a block is orphaned :D so dozens of time per month! lol This was pretty much my first thought. The OP might as well have said, "Guys, everything worked as it was supposed to! PANIC!" Title: Re: Congratulations on a successful 51% attack today everyone! Post by: WiW on March 12, 2013, 08:49:03 PM Based on what you said, WiW, there is a 51% attack everytime a block is orphaned :D so dozens of time per month! lol The difference being that a block is usually orphaned because it came second to the miner (propagated the network slower) but wasn't shorter in terms of proof of work. In this case they rejected a valid, longer proof of work chain in favor of making a shorter chain outpace the longer one with a majority of hashing power. |