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Re: Easy solution to prevent 51% attacks from doing any harm?
by
greyman
on 22/01/2014, 09:14:23 UTC
Hi folks,   I often read that many people are afraid of so called 51% attacks. I really don't  understand the big deal about it.  

********1st problem: Double Spend Attack*********

Here my solution: Can't we agree that our full Bitcoin Nodes never automatically overwrite these parts of the Blockchain that are older than let's say 1 hour  (or 6 confirmations).  Normally orphaned blockchains never contain more than one additional block, so there should not occur any problems.  

Actually, this IS already implemented, as I described in the following article:

http://btc-base.blogspot.sk/2014/01/bitcoin-transactions-why-it-is.html

Theoretically, though, I am not sure if the attacker couldn't try to fake the timestamp (he would set the timestamp of the first "private" block around one hour to the future).