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Ask HN: How to prevent a 51% attack in a cryptocurrency?
4 points by jerrylives on June 25, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



you can't and that's by design.

see the byzantine generals problem.

But, that said, nothing prevents the 49% from abandoning your network and banning the previous 51% from their fork.


Community pressure has been the only proven way thus far.




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