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We can confirm that there was a successful 51% att...
As long as the attacker maintains 51%, he can eventually just repeat the attack, regardless of the number of forks.
bouncycastle
on Jan 8, 2019
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Ooohchie, yes indeed!
jki275
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You change the POW function in the fork to eliminate the attack.
bouncycastle
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Perhaps if the attack was done using ASICs, but when done with GPUs it can be repeated indefinitely. See discussion
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/707h3b/can_anyone...
jki275
on Jan 9, 2019
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Yes, you have to address that kind of attack differently.
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