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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What stops Bitcoin from being hacked? on: June 14, 2021, 12:51:38 AM
But can't a virus be created to corrupt nodes, and over time spread to 51% of the network.
Nodes cannot be attacked to influence the network the same way as miners do. Nodes only enforces the rules locally and does not affect the protocol rules being enforced by others. Even if the other nodes accept a Bitcoin block with a million Bitcoins in block rewards, your node won't, as you're still enforcing the rules yourself, unaffected by what others are doing. As long as your own nodes is enforcing a set of rules, no one else can make your node violate those rules.

That being said, Sybil attack doesn't require any proportion of the nodes to be compromised and that is practically the only attack which uses the nodes. You're confused about 51% attack, I'd recommend you to do up more reading on this matter before posting any further.


Thanks for your reply, do you have any recommended reading?
2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What stops Bitcoin from being hacked? on: June 13, 2021, 09:33:29 PM
Is it possible for a person/government to spread a virus targeting all Bitcoin nodes, then be able to manipulate  the network?
Theoretically yes, practically no.

As there is no centralized server and the there are thousands of full nodes that store the entire blockchain, it's not possible to manipulate the bitcoin blockchain.
A hacker may access to the computer of someone running a full node and change the data. But it's not possible to take control of thousands of computers at a same time.

In theory, a hacker needs to have control of more than 51% of the hashing power for a long time to compromise the bitcoin blockchain. It's extremely unlikely.

 
Why can't Bitcoin core be manipulated to accept bad blocks?
You can manipulate the data stored in your computer. But there are thousands of other full nodes that have the correct copy of the blockchain and reject invalid transactions/blocks.
A transaction needs to be validated by majority of the nodes.

But can't a virus be created to corrupt nodes, and over time spread to 51% of the network.
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What stops Bitcoin from being hacked? on: June 13, 2021, 09:16:51 PM
Why can't Bitcoin core be manipulated to accept bad blocks?
4  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What stops Bitcoin from being hacked? on: June 13, 2021, 09:07:58 PM
Why not? Couldn’t it be spread over years?
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / What stops Bitcoin from being hacked? on: June 13, 2021, 08:54:48 PM
Hey, I am trying to determine how safe the Bitcoin network is. Is it possible for a person/government to spread a virus targeting all Bitcoin nodes, then be able to manipulate  the network?

Although this would be difficult, couldn’t a government pull this off?
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