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June 14, 2014, 02:27:34 AM



Worst a 51% attack could do is halt confirmations of all transactions until the hashrate drops. Not really a problem.

that's still a dos attack, and that's still a problem

until the hashrate drops or like within 10 minutes.

I'm not sure I understand, if the hashrate drops significantly, it could take longer than 2 weeks for it to adjust.

blocks would be very slow in the meantime,

it's still a denial of service attack.

is it not?
DDOS is when a so many requests to a server are made constantly which slows down service for everyone or crashes the server