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From: Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Miner dilution attack on Bitcoin - is that something plausible?
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:49:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ead536-d173-f80b-3ffd-b586a591371f@heliacal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJRVQkDM390Y4sVzA8WwM93PY4UqUa8gvPKkT-iA2UcYL6FQ+g@mail.gmail.com>


On 2018-06-18 18:34, Артём Литвинович via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Suppose a malicious actor were to acquire a majority of hash power, and
> proceed to use that hash power to produce valid, but empty blocks.

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin/wiki/Empty-Block-Fallacy



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-18 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-18 18:34 [bitcoin-dev] Miner dilution attack on Bitcoin - is that something plausible? Артём Литвинович
2018-06-18 18:47 ` Alexander Leishman
2018-06-19 13:54   ` Eric Voskuil
2018-06-18 18:49 ` Laszlo Hanyecz [this message]
2018-06-18 20:40 ` Bram Cohen
2018-06-18 20:51   ` Bryan Bishop
2018-06-19 18:58 ` Richard Hein

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