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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: TTAv (Time Travel Attack Vector)
by
failed@99%
on 04/04/2023, 06:19:38 UTC
You are also missing the human element. Ignoring all other safeguards*, if a chain "better" than the current one appeared suddenly, a lot of people would notice, and nobody would believe the new chain to be the correct one. Bitcoin Core would quickly be updated to blacklist the new chain.

* Bitcoin Core currently has several checkpoints for blocks it expects in the current chain. The last checkpoint is from 2022, so if you want to fool the latest Bitcoin Core, you have to start your work from that point.



Yes, this IS the type of answer I was looking for... Thank you....
One would have to actually colide the hash from those Checkpoints!

This saves me a lot of work now... I will think of a way to go against the check points, and that requires me more thoughts on this!
(If even possible...)

Thank You again! @ymgve2