Quote from: Flashman on January 06, 2015, 12:05:08 PM

Quote from: rix5 on January 06, 2015, 11:56:45 AM

this attack dwarfs a 51% attack by several orders of magnitude. Does this attack have a name or wiki-page yet?

Wat? 15-20% is now "several orders of maginitude" different than 51%?

Can we get some numerically literate commentary PUHLEASE.

i was talking about the fatality of the attack which would be enorm compared to a little doublespend.
Do you even comprehend the topic or you just try to deny it without even looking at/understanding it?

What the guy means is total doomsday; and relatively cheap considered the possible successrate and impact.
To resolve this issue one would need to hardfork bitcoin and change difficulty retarget. It's a total vulnerability as it is now.