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February 08, 2014, 01:05:36 AM
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just started mining a month ago,found out what a 51% attack is, and pools can go down easyly.I mined litecoin,memorycoin,doge,moon,vert,earthcoin,lottocoin.few big pools have most of the hash power.Lets say 3 biggest pools have 30% each.One goes down ,not a problem.what if 2 of the 3 go down
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February 08, 2014, 01:14:28 AM
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NO

Stop making thread, Spend at least 2 months of reading and searching.

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February 08, 2014, 01:22:37 AM
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Stop spamming using your low intelligence and do research before you talk about something you don't even understand.
Pools don't go down that easily.
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February 08, 2014, 08:05:45 AM
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A pool going down won't 51% a coin, but anyone controlling 51% hashpower can 51% attack a PoW coin.

If you're concerned about the centralization of hashpower, pure PoS coins, like Nxt, aren't susceptible to 51% attacks.  Nxt is resistant up to 90% currency concentration.


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February 08, 2014, 02:12:37 PM
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Don't forget about p2pool.  You get many of the benefits of pool mining while helping to protect from a 51% attack.  And you should end up with more coins because of lower fees.
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February 10, 2014, 02:50:21 AM
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just started mining a month ago,found out what a 51% attack is, and pools can go down easyly.I mined litecoin,memorycoin,doge,moon,vert,earthcoin,lottocoin.few big pools have most of the hash power.Lets say 3 biggest pools have 30% each.One goes down ,not a problem.what if 2 of the 3 go down

seems like you misunderstood "51% attack".....
It will be a problem if 2 of the 3 big pools "co-corporate" with each other and controls 60% of hashrate, but it will not be any 51% attack if 1/2/3 big pools go down....
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February 10, 2014, 04:39:55 PM
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just started mining a month ago,found out what a 51% attack is, and pools can go down easyly.I mined litecoin,memorycoin,doge,moon,vert,earthcoin,lottocoin.few big pools have most of the hash power.Lets say 3 biggest pools have 30% each.One goes down ,not a problem.what if 2 of the 3 go down

seems like you misunderstood "51% attack".....
It will be a problem if 2 of the 3 big pools "co-corporate" with each other and controls 60% of hashrate, but it will not be any 51% attack if 1/2/3 big pools go down....

The only possibility is like in this example:
4 pools control 25% of network hashrate each. 3 go down, which would mean that the pool left controls most or all of the hashrate.
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February 10, 2014, 06:56:39 PM
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Don't forget about p2pool.  You get many of the benefits of pool mining while helping to protect from a 51% attack.  And you should end up with more coins because of lower fees.
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February 12, 2014, 11:37:45 PM
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Don't forget about p2pool.  You get many of the benefits of pool mining while helping to protect from a 51% attack.  And you should end up with more coins because of lower fees.
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True.
The only problem with p2pool is that, you need to have decent hashrate, or the variance will be pretty high.
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