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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: New method of 51% attack?
by
R2D221
on 10/02/2015, 14:39:19 UTC
To mine two chains you need double the power, so in this scenario the “51%” would actually be 25.5% and 25.5%.

Don't you mean 102%?

No, you have it backwards. To mine 2 chains you need to split your effort between the two chains, so you got 25.5% for each chain. I said it's “double” the power because the total power is double the power for each chain.

Just think about it. If you have 51% of the total power, how are you planning to get 102%? It's mathematically impossible.