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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Solution to a 51% attack?
by
ghostlander
on 13/10/2013, 21:19:18 UTC
Why do keep fixating on "longest chain"? ? ?

The longest chain does not determine the accepted chain. With no disrespect intended it is clear that you do not even have a basic fundamental understanding of 51% attacks or any other for that matter. Everything proposed as "protection" in this thread is flawed to say the least.


~BCX~

Correct me if I am wrong, but the longest valid chain is the accepted chain no?

No if it's behind the last checkpoint for instance.


Yes, but checkpoints don't affect this system(other than the hard checkpoints we manually put in), as the auto-checkpointing is done locally and only stored in memory, it is lost upon closing the client.

That's what I'd like you to explain in depth including why you think it's better than ACP which is a proven solution.