Post
Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: 51% Attack
by
JollyGood
on 24/01/2020, 22:12:38 UTC

~snip~

The Antminer S17 calculates approximately 67 TH/s and costs $1600 to purchase.

The attacker is going to need to purchase:
120,000,000,000,000,000,000 / 67,000,000,000,000 = 1,791,045 Antminer S17

I'm not sure how long it would take Antminer to manufacture 1.8 million S17 units, but let's pretend they just happen to have them sitting in a warehouse waiting to be sold...

That's going to cost the attacker $2,865,672,000

Have to take my hat off to you, there are some serious calculations there  Shocked

The reality is the only winner in any such scenario would the Antminer manufacturing company