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Edited on 28/04/2025, 21:25:32 UTC
Folks, you DO realize that anyone with a SINGLE current high-end miner can easily do a Testnet 51% attack right? The Bitmain S21 XP hydro does 473TH/s....
According to ASICMinerValue.com, this thing mines €18.53 worth of Bitcoin per day. So the cost (in missed revenue) of this 51% attack to anyone who owns this ASIC would only be $21 per day.I'd say the fact that nobody does it confirms there's no point in doing this
It also reinforces the point that the only
A. They can
B. They enjoy screwing with testnet and breaking what it is intended to be used for
C.
Heavens forbid that they make a Faucet to distribute at least some of their coins for free to developers that actually need it and can't mine it themselves because of these attacks...
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Edited on 21/04/2025, 21:55:40 UTC
Folks, you DO realize that anyone with a SINGLE current high-end miner can easily do a Testnet 51% attack right? The Bitmain S21 XP hydro does 473TH/s....
According to ASICMinerValue.com, this thing mines €18.53 worth of Bitcoin per day. So the cost of this 51% attack to anyone who owns this ASIC would only be $21 per day.I'd say the fact that nobody does it confirms there's no point in doing this
It also reinforces the point that the only reason there are folks hitting the testnet so hard is because:
A. They can
B. They enjoy screwing with testnet and breaking what it is intended to be used for
C. There sad to say, is a market for selling tBTC to idjits
Heavens forbid that they make a Faucet to distribute at least some of their coins for free to developers that actually need it and can't mine it themselves because of these attacks...
Original archived Re: Testnet 51% possible ? today ?
Scraped on 21/04/2025, 21:25:28 UTC
Folks, you DO realize that anyone with a SINGLE current high-end miner can easily do a Testnet 51% attack right? The Bitmain S21 XP hydro does 473TH/s....
According to ASICMinerValue.com, this thing mines €18.53 worth of Bitcoin per day. So the cost of this 51% attack to anyone who owns this ASIC would only be $21 per day.I'd say the fact that nobody does it confirms there's no point in doing this
It also reinforces the point that the only reason there are folks hitting the testnet so hard is because:
A. They can
B. They enjoy screwing with testnet and breaking what it is intended to be used for
C. There sad to say, is a market for selling tBTC to idjits
Heavens forbid that they make a Faucet to distribute their coins to developers that actually need it and can't mine it themselves because of these attacks...