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Re: Now I see how ANY Government can EASILY KILL BTC
by
razorfishsl
on 15/04/2014, 09:18:47 UTC
Too many people not thinking it thorough clearly….


1. DDOS one of the major mining pool, forcing the clients to switch to other pools.

2. Take down the work servers for two other major pools and replace with your own tainted code work servers.
3. Use THIER clients to propagate your 51% attack…. (after all there is NO encrypted connection between a pool work server and its engine clients)


No need to 'pay' anyone or even get the compliance of the pool owners………….
all are feasible attacks…. DDos & DNS attack.

I just don't see why people think you have to spend millions on 'out hashing' the network when the current setup has key points that can be exploited.


Really these pools should implement some sort of public key exchange to prevent  being replaced by compromised kit via a DNS attack.


RF