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Re: If an attacker gets more than 50 % of mining power
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bcearl
on 02/07/2011, 10:41:15 UTC
To reverse a 1000 blocks and to catch up then to make the longest block chain takes way more than 50 %, if you want to get it done in a decade.
Not really. With 67%, you can reverse 1000 past blocks in a week. Reversing 1000 future blocks takes a week with 52%.

You can't do it faster, because the difficulty will increase. If you generate a lot more than 6 blocks an hour nobody would accept that chain because the difficulty does not match.


Forget that, of course you can generate as fast as you like blocks with timestamps from the past.