Quote from: Stephen Gornick on October 01, 2013, 06:16:40 PM

Quote from: drawingthesun on October 01, 2013, 12:49:21 PM

The government can own 99.999% of all the nodes, but because no real commerce will be done with those nodes it does not matter.

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Quote from: Gavin Andresen on May 12, 2011, 04:48:24 PM

Quote from: xor on May 12, 2011, 02:39:06 PM

Short summary: An attacker could run tens of thousands of Bitcoin clients to isolate certain nodes from the network and then double-spend his coins.

That's actually a very hard attack to successfully pull off; I file it under "theoretically worrisome, but practically not a high priority."

It is hard because: [...]

Oh wow that is an interesting attack. Run so many nodes as to isolate legitimate ones.

I wonder what possible solutions exit?