Timeline for What can an attacker who controls majority or all of the full nodes do?
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| Nov 13, 2017 at 6:14 | comment | added | Pieter Wuille | By creating a transaction that prints money out of thin air, and modifying all his nodes to accept it. As full nodes are the only ones that can validate, nobody else would even notice. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 19:27 | comment | added | Pacerier | how does the "printing money out of thin air" work? (Assuming the attacker gets to control all full nodes for 5 yrs.) | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 9:43 | history | answered | Pieter Wuille | CC BY-SA 3.0 |