Timeline for Can a 51% attack be detected and dealt with?
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| Jan 11, 2017 at 3:46 | comment | added | anhldbk | @DavidSchwartz: with 51% hashing power, adversarial parities can mount Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Can DoS be detected automatically? | |
| May 22, 2014 at 20:50 | comment | added | Pacerier | @DavidSchwartz, Couldn't the client have a "manual input" feature, which means that when the internet is split into half, our client will simply freeze and wait for human input instead of "trying to guess". Users would then manually choose the selected chain to follow (presumely after getting information from several respected sources online). | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 22:21 | comment | added | David Schwartz | @dg123 Yes. The "Internet is split in half" issue is different from the 51% issue. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 22:16 | comment | added | DJG | But wouldn't there also be other problems if the internet were to split in half? For example, couldn't someone who still had access to both halfs of the internet (while most of the world didn't) spend their coins on the different blockchains of the two halfs? | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 7:40 | vote | accept | ripper234 | ||
| Sep 15, 2011 at 6:20 | history | edited | David Schwartz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2011 at 20:49 | history | edited | David Schwartz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2011 at 20:36 | history | answered | David Schwartz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |