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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: I have to disagree with Gavin .... transaction mutability is a problem
by
Barek
on 12/02/2014, 00:58:57 UTC
This changes nothing on the usual practice that once a transaction is part of the blockchain it is safe to trust it. A 51% attack actually rewrites the blockchain.

NO it actualy doesn't: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Attacks#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_computing_power

Sorry for the tangent, second time that 51% BS was creeping in, and thank you DandT.

Uhm, yes, it does? With enough time and >50% you can start at any point in the blockchain and eventually overtake the current one.

That is why there is the 6 confirmations thing. The more confirmations there are the harder it is to create a malicious fork. With >50%, all bets are off.