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Re: Is it possible to fake the BTC blockchain?
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johnwhitestar
on 08/11/2019, 09:25:29 UTC
since you are talking about a full node, this attack is impossible. your node will detect invalid blocks. with an SPV wallet, the attack is theoretically possible but extremely unlikely because it requires mining blocks at the current difficulty level.
Thank you very much you've reminded me about the difficulty! :-)

where it is definetly possible and practical to do. is the lite wallets that dont involve validating blocks at client/user level where the lite wallet only gets UTXO data which can easily be faked on a closed internet
So should the attacker be certain his victim only uses a lite wallet he can invite his victim to his home to receive the payment?

And again I'd like to make it clear what is the purpose of this question. People are often ask and speak about wide BTC adoption here. But should this issue exist it can be the cause of many scams in the places like Africa, for instance, where many people have a mobile phone and also a free internet connection, but only... enabled to use Facebook and Whatsapp. So with a high degree of probability the sender's home wi-fi would be used in the above described transaction.