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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: 50% attack for ~800 BTC after block reward halving
by
bcearl
on 29/12/2014, 08:17:24 UTC
Note that the 51 % attack only allows you to double spend or to invalidate other people's transactions. It does not enable you to steal any coins from other people's addresses.


So the real risk for 800 BTC (now around $300k) here is not people using this to steal money, but big players (governments) trying to DoS the network.