Quote from: Cryptotourist on July 15, 2020, 06:58:48 AM

Quote from: jbreher on July 13, 2020, 07:05:56 AM

And yes, collusion between three miners is sufficient to amass 51% hashpower on the BSV network today. While such collusion on the BTC network would require the astronomically higher number of four. Roll Eyes

Struggling with this one jb.

Calvin, Craig and the leading BSV dev makes three. Sure.
But four!? You mean pools?

I am just pointing out the implication of the pie charts posted to make some kind of point about mining. It's right there in black & whi... err... several colors. BSV: 3; BTC: 4. Maybe I shoulda used <sarc>astronomically higher</sarc>.

'The leading BSV dev' would be ... ?

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Also there is that cost thingy...

Exactly. The beauty of the design satoshi devised is that it would cost the attackers more than they can possibly gain by attacking.