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Re: Potential bug in bitcoin: long-range attacks.
by
telepatheic
on
05/05/2014, 18:47:38 UTC
This isn't a bug because chains are selected in terms of cumulative difficulty not length of chain. Very quickly a node can distinguish the real chain from the fakes.