Post
Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Andreas M. Antonopoulos is "bullish on Ethereum"
by
funkenstein
on 22/06/2016, 20:05:58 UTC
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Incorrect. The point is that no matter what proof-of-work algorithm an altcoin employs, those who are protecting Bitcoin will rent enough mining hash rate to fuck your coin forever. They only have to rent it for a short period of time, and your difficulty will be so high that it will never produce a block again. And all the money in the chain will be unspendable for a very, very, very long time.

The "attacker" has the resources to do that to any proof-of-work altcoin which doesn't have the level of hashrate of Bitcoin.

Of course the altcoin can then manually reset the difficulty lower using a fork, but then the attacker can repeat again. It will quickly become clear that the altcoin is fucked.

If Monero starts to approach $1 billion market cap (or perhaps much less if the liquidity is very high, which it is for Monero), this attacker will destroy Monero and profit by shorting.

Dude you need to read tardlema a little longer before reposting the derpage here.  (I've been reading for years as you can tell by my fluent orcish).  

Otherwise, go ahead and rent some SHA256 asics and attack litecoin and monero with them.  I'll wait.  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1520691.msg15316487#msg15316487
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1520691.msg15316642#msg15316642
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1520691.msg15314867#msg15314867
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1520691.msg15313262#msg15313262
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1520691.msg15313922#msg15313922
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1520691.msg15313993#msg15313993


Hmm, i guess I didn't make my point clear, sorry.  My point was that your previously linked article (why there are no such thing as cryptocurrenciies)  assumed that hashpower is fungible across altcoin networks when in fact it isn't.  I only listed the coins as examples of coins secured with different hash functions, which are not mineable with SHA256 hardware.